Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Webb, Arizona


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. This is complex since GEOLAND makes it typically easy, however we're unable to verify the existence of this Webb, therefore we can't necessarily determine whether it's a populated, legally recognized place. Happy to provide this in draft if someone wants to try and sort out the sourcing and then return it to mainspace. Star  Mississippi  02:11, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Webb, Arizona

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No evidence of a community; appears to be a former rail junction and post office. –dlthewave ☎ 03:19, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. –dlthewave ☎ 03:19, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't know about a post office, but it was the name of a freight stop: "A spur of the Atchison and Topeka runs south of the mainline at El Mirage and to Luke AFB. The station there (Webb, Arizona) used in the past for freight deliver, is no longer in use." from a book on Luke AFB. Not any kind of populated place. MB 03:54, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets GEOLAND - populated, legally recognized places. this shows it had a post office, which means it was legally recognized and populated.  There are dozens of mentions like this, this, this, this, and this, again showing it was populated.  It was most likely a mining town, as this shows that the Colford Copper Co. operated a mine there.  Onel 5969  TT me 10:47, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Is there a source that shows legal recognition? I think I was mistaken in mentioning a post office. According to this, there were two post offices called Webb, AZ, in Cochise county and Yavapai county, but none in Maricopa. The problem with these passing mentions in newspapers is that they don't even give us enough context to determine which place they're talking about, much less meet the GNG requirement for in-depth coverage. We would need sourcing that actually discusses Webb itself in sufficient detail. –dlthewave ☎ 12:35, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I concur. These mentions of Webb are most likely in Cochise County. This shows that the Webb associated with Colford Copper was "a station several miles north of Elfrida along the Douglas-Courtland branch of the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad." Not much of that Webb today either besides West Webb Road in Elfrida. MB 21:30, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Relisting. Can it be definitively shown that the new sources are or aren't talking about THIS Webb, Arizona? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 03:31, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:V, since we don't have a reliable source for the existence of a populated place here. The passing mentions cited in newspapers do not state that there was a populated place at this location and indeed may not be referring to this location since there were other Webbs in Arizona. Also fails WP:GEOLAND since there is no evidence of legal recognition and it clearly doesn't pass WP:GNG.  Hut 8.5  16:32, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep per the links provided by User:Onel5969. These are sufficient to pass WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG.  Frank   Anchor  01:42, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * delete Besides the apparent problem that there may be three different places being discussed here, none of the material presented steps up to the problem that the passing references are irreconcilable with a curved siding on a spur line apparently put in to serve an airbase which didn't exist before 1941. For that matter, most of them can't even be shown to refer to this Webb, and both of the post offices appear to have been elsewhere, notwithstanding that we've not taken post offices as indicative of legal recognition. This is just not a notable rail spot, which is all it appears to be. Mangoe (talk) 06:47, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment: When a rail stop doesn't appear to have become a community by any standards, the solution in my view really shouldn't be to just delete any coverage of the location, but to figure out where the content should go.  Perhaps a standalone article on the Ennis Spur .--Milowent • hasspoken  14:14, 27 September 2022 (UTC)


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