Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wheatfields, Apache County, 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 procedural close. This discussion was one of a large number of disruptive, retaliatory nominations of articles from (see WP:ANI), made in such quick succession that they cannot have individually determined that there is a reason for deletion. If there are other editors in good standing that think this article should be deleted, please feel free to open a new discussion. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 06:54, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

Wheatfields, Apache County, Arizona

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Article does not meet WP:NGF. Subject lakcs WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV that address the subject directly and in-depth. Not an encyclopedic topic. ~  Pog ing  Juan  05:24, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets WP:GEOLAND. This appears to be a spate of retaliatory edits by this editor after they disagreed with an edit I made on one of the articles they created. Onel 5969  TT me 09:58, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - per WP:GEOLAND. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:55, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Shellwood (talk) 14:43, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of Navajo Nation Chapters. This is a chapter of the Navajo Nation, but it makes more sense to leave it as a redirect until more can be written about it. –dlthewave ☎ 18:48, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:GEOLAND, although the Arizona Place Names book refers to it using "Wheatfields Creek" or "Wheatfields Canyon" so possibly rename, although it's possible that the name has been shortened since that 1960 book was published.  There may be a Navajo chapter named after the location settlement, but this article is about the location settlement, not the chapter.  The fact that there is a chapter named for the location settlement lends credibility to the fact that it is a legitimate place name named settlement.  RecycledPixels (talk) 22:21, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Wheatfields Creek and Wheatfields Lake are marked bodies of water on the 1:24,000 topo, and I don't doubt that there's a Wheatfields Canyon nearby. But do any of these actually meet GEOLAND, which states "Named natural features are often notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist"? Currently we have no significant coverage of the spot that would contribute to notability or even tell us what it is/was. –dlthewave ☎ 04:43, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I was going on the basis that it was a populated settlement. Looking further, I think my comment that the accurate name might be Wheatfields Creek or Wheatfields Canyon is incorrect, that those are the names of the creek and the canyon, respectively, not the settlement.  In "The Navajo country: A geographic and hydrographic reconnaissance of parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah", a USGS document printed in 1916,  there is mention of the water features and the settlement itself on pages 35 and 36.  Quoting a portion of those pages:  "Natural agriculture, chiefly limited to the raising of corn, is practiced in Wide Ruin, Pueblo Colorado, and other washes where flood irrigation is feasible.  Along Simpson Creek, Wheatfields Creek, Spruce Brook, and Lakachukai Creek many Indian farms are located, and Lakachukai Navajos have developed the most successful farms observed on the reservation.  Corn, wheat, alfalfa, potatoes, and melons are raised here, both with and without the aid of irrigation.  The Government irrigation projects at Ganado and Wheatfields are designed to increase the acreage at points where agriculture is now carried on by intelligent Navajos.  Trading posts on Defiance Plateau are located at Wide Ruin, Cross Canyon, Saw Mill, Nazlini, Sheep Dip, Crystal, and Round Rock, and a Government farmer is stationed at Wheatfields. " (bolding mine).  So I read that to indicate that there is/was a settlement named Wheatfields.  I fixed my earlier comment to clarify that I am referring to the populated settlement rather than simple geographic features like canyons or streams.  I was confused by one of the sources I was looking at and thought the settlement itself was called Wheatfields Creek but it is apparent that is not the case because the USGS publication refers to the creek as Wheatfields Creek and the settlement as just plain Wheatfields.  RecycledPixels (talk) 05:45, 19 October 2022 (UTC)


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