Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rocky Junction, Arizona


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:46, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Rocky Junction, Arizona

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All are road or railroad junctions, not populated places. GNIS failures similar to Articles for deletion/Robinson Trail Crossing, Arizona. 
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 * Reywas92Talk 05:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Reywas92Talk 05:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. Reywas92Talk 05:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Reywas92Talk 05:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Reywas92Talk 05:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. Reywas92Talk 05:26, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Contrary to nom's claim, all are recognized as populated places by the USGS (per source on each page) and thus would pass WP:NGEO Delete Per nom, after finding out about the unreliability of GNIS Sulfurboy (talk) 06:14, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , Please don't repeat others' nonsense: listing in the GNIS is NOT necessarily an accurate assertion that a location is a populated place, and even then is NOT an automatic guarantor of notability. Please see Articles for deletion/Susie, Washington (industrial rail spurs incorrecly labeled as "populated places" and sadly repeated elsewhere) and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, etc, etc. These are accurately classified as locales in the USGS's National Gazetteer. The GNIS is a database of names on maps ("This guideline specifically excludes maps and various tables from consideration when establishing topic notability, because these sources often establish little except the existence of the subject."), not legal recognition or mandates for separate articles. Reywas92Talk 07:10, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete all per nom. No evidence any are/were populated places of any kind. Three are named road junctions. Litchfield Junction was a rail junction of a two-mile industrial spur to Litchfield Park. Benson Junction may have had a building at one time as a railroad station. Corta Junction was where a 3 mile-long spur left the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad to serve the mine in Lowell, Arizona. More mis-categorizations in GNIS. MB 06:21, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Satellite shows there is absolutely nothing there. —МандичкаYO 😜 07:55, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'm curious about the use of satellite images for notability, so I started a section over at Wikipedia talk:Notability (geographic_features) Cxbrx (talk) 22:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Rocky Junction. Trivial mention of the junction in https://newspapers.com with no mention of a population.  Post Office not found. Cxbrx (talk) 21:55, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Rosemont Junction A USGS paper says that "at present" (whenever that was, either 1933 or 1994?) there was a house at Rosemont Junction and the remains of a poured foundation.  The record of 1 or 2 houses does not make for notable, non-trivial coverage.  https://newspapers.com has some hits, including a dog lost at the picnic tables at Rosemont Junction. Cxbrx (talk) 21:55, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Litchfield Junction. Trivial mention of the junction in https://newspapers.com with no mention of a population. Post Office not found. Cxbrx (talk) 03:26, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Benson Junction. https://newspapers.com has mentions of Benson Junction in the context of the railway (track abandonment) with no mention of a population. No Post Office. Cxbrx (talk) 03:26, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Kinney Junction. https://newspapers.com had only 5 mentions of '"Kinney Junction" Arizona'.  No Post Office. Cxbrx (talk) 03:26, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, of the five search results, two do not mention "Kinney Junction" at all; two are copies of the same classified ad that uses Kinney Junction as a landmark (20 miles away); and the lone bonafide newspaper article only mentions it in passing as a landmark. –dlthewave ☎ 04:03, 20 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Corta Junction. https://newspapers.com had 0 mentions of '"Corta Junction" Arizona'. No Post Office, though there is a mention of a postal route. Arizona Place Names says that it is a station for loading firewood. Cxbrx (talk) 03:26, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete All - These are all non-notable erroneous GNIS entries. In the few instances where they're actually mentioned in reliable sources, they're only used as landmarks. –dlthewave ☎ 04:12, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable under WP:GEOLAND. PenulisHantu (talk) 14:29, 20 February 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.