Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wheeler Place, Arizona


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:43, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Wheeler Place, Arizona

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Non-notable family homestead where a non-notable person lived. This article was deprodded with the rationale "Inhabited places are presumed notable WP:GEOLAND, and this even has a reference to someone known to have been born there." The sole source for this is an obituary for Carl Wheeler which mentions that he spent part of his childhood at the Wheeler Place and that the name still appears on maps. I view this as an overly broad interpretation of WP:GEOLAND; the fact that somebody lived there and it appears on a map does not meet the spirit or, arguably, the letter of our notability guidelines. –dlthewave ☎ 23:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. –dlthewave ☎ 23:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:48, 19 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Zero results in newspapers.com and Google map shows there is nothing there but the Arizona-New Mexico border. —МандичкаYO 😜 00:24, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. A single house is not notable without significant coverage. This does not meet GNG. MB 01:21, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. GNIS lists it as a populated place, but GNIS makes errors.  (See Articles for deletion/Mount Jefferson (Ohio) for something going the other way, where a populated place was listed as a mountain.)  A good example of why GNIS should never be used as the basis for an article without something else corroborating.  Nyttend (talk) 03:08, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No indication that this is a notable place. Unclear why someone added the paid obit of some rando former missionary...it just corroborates the homestead's lack of notability! Reywas92Talk 04:31, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.WikiAviator (talk) 05:28, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge into Carl Wheeler PenulisHantu (talk) 13:44, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * That makes no sense, Carl Wheeler is a disambiguation page and the associated entry just points back to this (Wheeler Place, Arizona) MB 16:16, 20 February 2020 (UTC)


 * neutral / comment I was the one who deprodded the article, but I misread it. I thought it was a (very small) town, while it actually is a lone house. - Nabla (talk) 17:07, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Extra comment Further demonstrating the unreliability of the obituary — what maps does this appear on? I checked USGS quads for the site, and it doesn't label anything at the site.  Nyttend (talk) 23:34, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It does show up on topos from the 1950s but not on newer ones, which is evidence that USGS might be doing a certain amount of quality control that's not reflected in the GNIS database. As someone who was exposed to a lot of family mythology at a young age, I can easily picture someone pulling out Grandpa's old quads and saying "See, it's still on the map!" –dlthewave ☎ 23:51, 20 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Question for I take it you're all gonna trout me at once for trying to turn the article into a biography? ミラP 22:55, 23 February 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.