Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smith Crossing, West Virginia


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 18:20, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Smith Crossing, West Virginia

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Not metioned in a West Virginia place names book. I can't quite tell based on the topos whether the name references a group of four buildings along a road, an uninhabited point where the road crosses a river, or a single building by a railroad track. This newspapers.com reference to someone being struck by a train there suggests the latter. This calls it a locale, and locales generally fail WP:GEOLAND. Other Gbooks hits are for a place in Arkansas, a railroad feature in Arkansas, etc, but not this. I'm just not seeing a WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG pass here. Hog Farm Talk 18:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 18:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 18:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete The West Virginia Geographic Names book (and other similar USGS publications) are much more accurate and it's unclear how errors were introduced between this and the online GNIS. There's no evidence this is a notable community. Reywas92Talk 19:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - The material found for Smith Crossing, Randolph County, West Virginia is quite underwhelming. Google Scholar yielded only a few false hits, e.g."... J. Smith, Crossing the health IT chasm:..." and "...and MRS. SMITH (crossing to settee)." and nothing of any interest or applicability. Searching JSTOR using different combination of keywords yielded nothing applicable among variable numbers of false hits, e.g. "... for Fort Smith, crossing through the heart of the wood..." Looking through GEOREF resulted in "Your initial search query did not yield any results." and the SmartText Searching provided the expected false hits. Unfortunately, searching Google Search produced an unsearchable tusanmi of clickbait and references to "Smith Crossing" in Africa; someone named Smith crossing a river / stream; The Smith Crossing Water Association Inc. of Mississippi; a  Ohio Supreme Court decision, and so forth. Finally Google Books yielded only a number of references to Smith's Crossing in Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Virginia, and so forth. During several searches, the only valid hit found using Goggle Books that is applicable to this article is a "Smith Crossing" labeled on (soil map) Sheet 2 of the "Soil Survey of Randolph County Area, Main Part, West Virginia" by By Roy E. Pyle, Woodrow W. Beverage , Troy Yoakum , Denver P. Amick , William F. Hatfield , and David E. McKinney, (March 1982), Soil Conservation Service. Overall, I found nothing that would qualify this entity as either WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG. Paul H. (talk) 18:11, 30 January 2021 (UTC)


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