Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wilcox, Wyoming


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The result was redirect‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to Wilcox train robbery. Liz Read! Talk! 04:49, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Wilcox, Wyoming

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The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers And Their Historic Heists describes Wilcox in 1899 as "little more than a trackside station and water stop manned by one or two railroad employees" and I could find no evidence that it was ever anything more than this. Newspaper and book coverage focuses almost entirely on a nearby train robbery and various railroad-related incidents that took place nearby, simply using Wilcox as a reference location. –dlthewave ☎ 17:41, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Wyoming. –dlthewave ☎ 17:41, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 21:31, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment -- Google Earth doesn't show any remnant of a train station today. There's one farm house 1/4 mile away. -- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 12:04, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete Nothing on Google Earth, nor in any other sources. If there ever was a train station there, there certainly isn't now. --TheInsatiableOne (talk) 16:10, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect to Wilcox train robbery per WP:V - no source cited to show the subject is a populated place as claimed. There are lots of mentions of it as the location of the robbery, but none identify it as a settlement, or anything other than a very small facility for the railroad.  Hut 8.5  16:57, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Wilcox train robbery, where I have spliced in the coordinate information from the Wilcox article. Ultimately the bare fact of the location seems to be the only information that this article is ever likely to be able to provide, and that can be provided more usefully in the robbery article. It seems illustrative that the Historical Atlas of the Outlaw West has a full entry on Wilcox -- but that article, too, is almost entirely about the robbery, with only the brief mention of a "trackside sign" that apparently still marked Wilcox's location in the 1980s. -- Visviva (talk) 00:20, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per my previous comment above - nothing there. -- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 03:26, 4 July 2023 (UTC)


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