Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smothers, Virginia


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  13:22, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Smothers, Virginia

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Another location in Pittsylvania County I couldn't identify. This name doesn't show on up the topos until the 1960s, both ones that show this name and earlier ones show a point on the railroad with basically nothing there. Searching brings up innumerable mentions in local newspapers about a TV show from the 1960s, as well as references to the local Smothers family. This doesn't seem to meet WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG; I can't even identify it with what I found. Hog Farm Talk 04:15, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 04:15, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Talk 04:15, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete One of 2,000+ mass-produced junk GNIS articles in Virginia without notability that needs a systematic solution. Reywas92Talk 16:14, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 03:40, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Zero evidence of existence, let alone notability. At best this location deserves a tiny mention on a map in an article about the Norfolk Southern line passing through. No mention on | this map I found either, which is quite extensive. There's already more content in this AfD discussion than I could find on the subject of this article. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 03:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete No coverage of this alleged community in GBooks, newspapers.com for "Smothers Virginia" or "Smothers Pittsylvania". The best I found was a report of the death of a relative of the Smothers Brothers at town 49 miles from Smothers on a page with a bunch of obits from Pittsylvania County.  I agree with Hog Farm that the earliest topo in which it appears is a 1964 1:24000 of Pittsville, VA.  My WP:OR wild guess is this was a siding associated with Smothers Tobacco? Clearly this page was part of a mass creation effort with no research other than looking at GNIS.  Maybe this is a Trap Street? I should probably start tracking which of these purported communities has the least coverage. :-) Cxbrx (talk) 01:48, 14 August 2021 (UTC)


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