Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scholfield, Virginia


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  10:06, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Scholfield, Virginia

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Not seeing any community here, topos never show any named location here. Only evidence of existence is GNIS, this article, and websites that copy GNIS. 🌀 Kieran207 - talk 🌀 02:32, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:42, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:42, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete fails WP:GEOLAND, any online mentions are just WP-derived. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:26, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * You'll find that it's in the here.com-supplied data that Bing Maps (for example) uses for the map underneath the pin, and the name on the underlying map is to the north of where the GNIS-derived pin places it. The problem here isn't that it isn't on topographic maps.  It is.  I just pulled one on from the GeoHack link.  The problem here is that GNIS-derived "unincorporated community" means nothing thanks to a database dump.  So the first question to answer is what it even is.  That's the big hurdle with these articles. Unfortunately, it remains unanswered from my research.  The Virginia Division of Mineral Resources has been telling us that it's in both Prince Edward and Lunenburg since the 1950s, but I do not have access to the reports, or to Thomas H. Biggs' Geographic and Cultural Names in Virginia, which apparently tells us.  Perhaps another editor will find it. It seems undocumented even if we get over that hurdle, though. At the moment, as far as I can research it, this one-sentence article is unverifiable.  Uncle G (talk) 09:56, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Topos show it as a single building at a road junction. I turned up a single reference to someone being "of Scholfield", but the geographic context means that could have been an error for Schoolfield, Virginia.  I don't think this place is notable. Hog Farm Talk 18:49, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Well here's Scholfield!. I bring this up because it looks like there are some signs (particularly the white one on the lawn) that might indicate some sort of community. But the image is too grainy to be able to clearly read the signs. Aside from that, this place is a total mystery. This was never the site of any rail location. And the only building shown to ever exist here prior to modern land development is the house with the white sign seen in the street view shot. The only possibility I could think of is that a previous resident of that house was named "Scholfield" and the name may have stuck to the location. None of this is verifiable and probably isn't notable, but I just wanted to throw this out.--🌀 Locomotive207 - talk 🌀 (Formerly Kieran207 )


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