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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 03:13, 10 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Acors Corner, Virginia[edit]

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All of these are "Corners" in a single county! Mass-produced from GNIS within seconds of each other, and looking at GMaps it is clear that these are not communities. Back in the day they would put random people's homes on the map, which eventually ended up in the database of names on a map, but they are not necessarily towns or villages with automatic notability. Unlike the GNIS, the USGS's Virginia Geographic Names has them properly listed as locales rather than populated places. Also see this topo map, where they are written in a different typeface from the community of Ladysmith, Virginia and don't show concentrations of habitation. I was largely unable to find even passing mention of these in newspapers.com.

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 01:34, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 01:34, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. While I don't like mass nominations, my impression from a sample of the articles in question is that they are non-distinct "populated places" by the USGS definition: "Place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village)," versus "locale," a place of human activity. In short, these are named places with permanent residential buildings. The only possible U6 community I found was a false positive, Davis Corner. The reference was pointing to the wrong database entry. • Gene93k (talk) 02:36, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
We have established that the GNIS is not reliable in its online classifications: please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susie, Washington and 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. These are in fact appropriately in the Locale class in the USGS's Virginia Geographic Names gazetteer. The mere fact a person once lived somewhere is not a basis for notability. We wouldn't have to do mass nominations if there weren't such mass creations...an impossible waste of time to do individually. Reywas92^Talk 03:28, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per WP:PROVEIT, with the recreation of any of these with the addition of a reliable source confirming it is or was a populated place to be encouraged.---Pontificalibus 08:47, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
delete the lot with the understanding that those for whom substantive documentation can be produced may be recreated. I commend the nominator for checking all of these, because my patience has been exhausted. Some of those I've checked in this group did not have any signs of habitation around them; in one case there was a single house which was built long after the name appeared on the topo map which is the source. GNIS populated places can give locations, but have to be checked against other sources to verify that there is some meaningful concentration of population. Mangoe (talk) 16:06, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I've spot-checked enough of these at random and none of them appear sourceable - they're known place names and some get a couple hits on legal designations but we can't say anything about them, really. SportingFlyer T·C 10:51, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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