Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trotters, North Dakota


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:20, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Trotters, North Dakota

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The old church here is hugely photogenic and is endlessly photographed, in no small part because it stands alone by the side of the road, a short distance from an abandoned gas station which appears to have opened in the mid 1980s, replacing a pair of buildings on the opposite side of the road. Sources imply those buildings included a store at some point, but this is another place where there's no sign anyone actually lived here. Mangoe (talk) 03:25, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Trotters and its last (and for a while only) resident, Leonard Hall, got quite a bit of newspaper coverage in the late 20th century, much as Monowi, Nebraska does today. There's this Associated Press article from 1981, this article from 1987 in the Bismarck Tribune, this article six years later in the same newspaper, and this article from when the post office closed in 1995. All four articles are fairly substantial, and when put together amount to significant coverage. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 03:57, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * The coverage is interesting, though I don't know that I'd call it extensive, as it is more or less the same story repeated at intervals, with some variation due to the passage of time. But more importantly, it's about the post office and the postmaster, and there's precious little about any town except for the assumption that there was one, and some passing mention of the church. It tends to ratify my analysis that the only thing ever here was the store/PO and the church, and that there was never any encompassing settlement. I think the notability claim is a stretch at best, but if it survives, it wouldn't be an article about a town. Mangoe (talk) 04:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:04, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of North Dakota-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:05, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - might not be a "legally recognized populated place", but meets GNG with sources provided above. Spicy (talk) 05:20, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - The article has sources-Thank You-RFD (talk) 16:20, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets GNG with sources added to article. ~ EDDY  ( talk / contribs )~ 01:04, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Doremo (talk) 04:34, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Unincorporated communities are considered notable. Seacactus 13 (talk) 05:41, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That is not how discussions have gone of late, and in any case, the bigger issue here is that the evidence is that this was not a "community". It was a post office operating out of a store. We have routinely deleted these. Mangoe (talk) 03:25, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
 * "of Trotters, N. D., being old respected settlers of this community" (The Wahpeton Times, May 28, 1916); "Two inland communities, Golva and Trotters" (The Bismarck Tribune, May 4, 1950); "ranch in the Trotters community" (The Bismarck Tribune, May 6, 1952); "John A. Gorrell of the Trotters community" (The Bismarck Tribune, Apr. 27, 1961); "ranch in the Trotters community" (The Bismarck Tribune, Apr. 28, 1961); "settled in the Trotters community" (The Bismarck Tribune, Apr. 2, 1981); "in the Trotters community" (The Bismarck Tribune, Jun. 11, 2006) Doremo (talk) 04:05, 8 January 2022 (UTC)


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