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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 23:26, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Yet another GNIS-hallucinated "community". The article cites several maps, but none of them actually uses this place name. In fact the location given is just a T intersection in the middle of nowhere in particular. The only "history" given is surmised from one of the maps. Mangoe (talk) 20:53, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep As the article currently stands, the multiple sources provided scrape by the standard to establish notability per WP:GEOLAND. As created, with a single source from GNIS, I would have agreed that the article shouldn't exist on a standalone basis, though I would ask why you're not arguing for a redirect as I would have (and did) under those circumstances. Alansohn (talk) 21:29, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Because I do not consider GNIS a sufficient demonstration that the spot was occupied by a town/hamlet/whatever at any time, especially as (so far) all the primary sources presented (which is all the sourcing we have) do not name the place (with the exception of the legislative report, which does not say what kind of place Fair Play is). If I eliminated the primary sources the two location catalogues would be all that was left. Mangoe (talk) 00:25, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep what Alansohn said. Famartin (talk) 22:38, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep what Famartin said about Alansohn. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:48, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:08, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep what Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) said about Famartin said about Alansohn. –Davey2010^Talk 04:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep ha, I'm gonna break the pattern, but yes I concur with the above. There are reliable sources provided to establish some notability. Tinton5 (talk) 01:55, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - THIS seems to be adequate, as cited in the footnotes. Carrite (talk) 20:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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