Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skirmish at Hunter's Farm


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 07:22, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Skirmish at Hunter's Farm

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I really hope I can be proved wrong on this one, but I'm worried that this one isn't notable. After constructing User:Hog Farm/Trans-Mississippi, I stumbled upon this one looking for articles that could be easily improved, but I'm not sure that this one can.

Of the four sources cited in the article - 1 and 4 are rather brief official military reports on the action, 2 is a brief passing mention, and 3 is a 1908 source that devotes four sentences to it. Potential sources not cited in the article - Elmo Ingenthron's Borderland Rebellion has a passing mention in a timeline and a passing reference to a separate minor event at Hunter's Farm 3 days later. I perused the Internet Archive's copy of Hughes's Battle of Belmont and while it discusses events at Hunter's Farm, they seem to be routine troop movements and not this one. Bruce Nichols's series about guerrilla warfare in Missouri has its first volume begin with 1862, and it doesn't mention this 1861 action.

So really, all we have to work with are the original 1860s military reports (which I'm not convinced would be considered secondary for WP:GNG) and four sentences in a 1908 compendium of all actions in the war which paints this as a tiny action between two small forces. Unless we're willing to pass this through solely on the primary source reports, I don't think there's enough written about this action to support/warrant an article. Hog Farm Talk 07:39, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 07:39, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 07:39, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Missouri-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 07:39, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:GNG, a minor action with minimal coverage, it doesn't warrant a stand-alone page. Is there anywhere it could be merged to? Mztourist (talk) 08:27, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment GBooks has several books with the event mentioned, most from US military sources. would seem to be enough to make it notable. GScholar has nothing. Oaktree b (talk) 01:28, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete -- The fact that it is called a skirmish, not a battle implies that it was a NN engagement. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:42, 27 November 2021 (UTC)


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