Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wood, Louisiana


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  03:43, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Wood, Louisiana

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WP:BEFORE for Wood, Louisiana:

General search

Just directory listings:

https://geotargit.com/index.php?qcountry_code=US&qregion_code=LA&qcity=Wood - Site contains a box that pre-enters Wood, Louisiana into the box. Uses Google Maps embed to plot point on a map. Below the embed are "Webcams near Wood". Below that are two tables which would only be useful for the purposes of being a sort of travel guide - one shows the distances of Wood, Louisiana from nearby cities such as New Orleans and Baton Rouge - the other shows the distances of Wood from the 10 most populated cities in America to use. Rest of the page is unrelated. Not useable as a source to establish notability.

https://www.travelmath.com/cities-near/Wood,+LA - Merely gives information on cities, hotels, airports, etc, etc. near Wood, LA. Purely a travel guide that could not be used to establish notability, per WP:NOTGUIDE, item 2.

False-positives and other nonsense

This WP:BEFORE was complicated by Google also listing Wood in Louisiana, alongside similary named places in the state (like Big Wood, LA). Google also brought up stuff like that doesn't talk about the location, but rather expenses for a "Louisiana Avenue" in the District of Columbia.

There's also this junk removal service page (which would never be used as a source anyway), which isn't ACTUALLY a removal service in the area like it says, just a way to find their services near you area - the map embed doesn't even point to Wood, LA.

If you choose to show the ommitted results, the results detoriate into mostly listings for Wood in Louisiana.

Google News search

The two pages of Google News results were all unrelated to Wood, LA. Most results instead were about Ruston, Louisiana... for some reason.

Google Books search

Various false-positives. This book that shows up only makes mention of - you guessed it - Wood in Louisiana. Nothing to see here.

1 2 3 4 5 6.

More false leads, not useable as sources as they only talk about either Wood in Louisiana or something else unrelated that contains the word "Wood".

In fact, the rest of the Google Books results from there are entirely irrelevant to "Wood, Louisiana".

Google Scholar

Nothing related to the town. Similar to the previous results, results were about either Wood in Louisiana or something related. Nothing useable.

Conclusion

Search yieleded no usable sources. Delete as failing WP:GNG and probably every other notability guideline. WikiJoeB (talk) 03:03, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. WikiJoeB (talk) 03:03, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. WikiJoeB (talk) 03:03, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Irresponsible GNIS junk. It cites the state DOT, meaning it's not even on topo maps because it was never a community in the first place. Reywas92Talk 03:53, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - No evidence of legal recognition or notability to satisfy WP:GEOLAND. I'm curious about this one since the [dotd.la.gov/Inside_LaDOTD/Divisions/Multimodal/Data_Collection/Mapping/Parish%20Maps/Natchitoches_North.pdf State highway map] has Wood located directly on the railroad as one would expect of a station. Historical topos and aerials show nothing but a few sparse homes in 1955, then a paper mill (at Kraft) and a sawmill without rail access (at Wood) in 1981. My best guess would be that these were landmarks used by either the railroad or the state DOT that eventually found their way into GNIS. –dlthewave ☎ 04:11, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. This article appears to have been created by a now globally blocked account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/123lilbrad WikiJoeB (talk) 12:11, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete I also searched Newspapers.com, but could only find things about a Wood Springs or about Hagewood, Louisiana. wizzito  &#124;  say hello!  01:23, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence beyond GNIS that place was ever a settlement, and GNIS is insufficient to satisfy WP:GEOLAND by itself. • Gene93k (talk) 00:35, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


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