Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ruletown, Kentucky


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The result was delete. North America1000 14:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Ruletown, Kentucky

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Yet another one where the GNIS entry is sourced to Rennick, only for Rennick not to mention this location in his thorough Casey County directory or exhaustive index. The only newspapers.com reference is bizarrely a scanner error for the word rifle. Topos show a handful of buildings in a loose scatter around a rural road junction, but do not give a name for the site. The rest of my WP:BEFORE turned up two bare mentions to "Ruletown neighorhood" in exhaustive lists of places, with the rest of the hits being for a place in Texas or the words rule and town used consecutively. Even if there was a Ruletown neighborhood, WP:GEOLAND requires legally recognized populated places, and I'm seeing no indication that this place ever had legal recognition. Additionally, WP:GEOLAND is not met. Hog Farm Talk 02:42, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 02:42, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 02:42, 7 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete: I have looked in Internet Archive, Google Search, Google Scholar, Google Books, JSTOR, and GEOREF and cannot find any historical records that specifically mention a town by this name in Kentucky much less any hard, positive evidence or proof of this entity's notibility. Like Hog Farm, I have found only clickbait from its Wikipedia entry and texts where the words "rule" and "town" used consecutively along with "Kentucky." In agree completely with Hog Farm. Paul H. (talk) 03:19, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * delete Nothing on any topo, and the aerials show no sign of a settlement. I'm beginning to think we can start PRODding these "Rennick-only" GNIS entries given the track record. Mangoe (talk) 00:13, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Vehemently Strong Delete No sources, the page is one sentence long, yet another useless town stub. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 16:35, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia has for far too long emphasized quantity over quality. It has lead to this articles that have no clear proof they are even reporting a name that was every actually used for any place.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:36, 8 February 2021 (UTC)


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