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The result was redirect to Akin, Illinois. Tone 15:25, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Akin Junction, Illinois[edit]

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Railroad junction does not meet WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG. –dlthewave ☎ 04:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. –dlthewave ☎ 04:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. –dlthewave ☎ 04:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I see articles from the 20s and 30s and 50s - looks like they expected to build a community there. But it is discussed over a course of decades in Illinois newsprint. 1, 2, 3 Lightburst (talk) 04:34, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Still purely a rail junction with no signs of notability. Hypothetical growth could be mentioned at Akin, Illinois. Reywas92^Talk 15:38, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• delete There's no hypothetical growth: one of the news stories is about constructing the line that made this a junction, and the other two are about later improvements to the same lines. None of it is about a settlement, real or hoped for, and all the coverage is very local. All evidence is that it is and always was the isolated rail junction which it remains today. Mangoe (talk) 00:50, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mangoe: from the first article above - Here:

Akin Junction, which is expected to develop into a new city of great proportions and possibilities will be the intersections of sections 9, 10, 15 and 16 Eastern Township, on land owned by Dema Summers

Lightburst (talk) 01:13, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge and redirect to Akin, Illinois, or if they seem too far from each other for the junction to be in scope for the settlement, then to Eastern Township, Franklin County, Illinois. There is only one WP:SIGCOV source in all those cited by Lightburst and cited by the article itself, and that is effectively local coverage: Lightburst's link 1 is "Benton Says I.C. Blueprints on Cut-Off Filed". Carbondale Free Press. Carbondale, Illinois. 1924-10-03. p. 1., citing the Benton Evening News. Akin Junction is arguably one of the primary topics of that article. But it's now been 97 years since the then-future junction was "expected to develop into a new city of great proportions and possibilities". (For what it's worth, new railroad lines often came with breathless media chatter of a metropolis being inevitable at some point on the line. Many of those claims were planted by land-trading speculators. I don't know if that is the case here. In any case, allegedly-imminent boomtowns on rail lines or favorable terrain were the 19th/early-20th century equivalent of WP:MYSPACEBAND.) --Closeapple (talk) 03:09, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge and redirect to Akin, Illinois. The junction is named after the community and is less than a mile away, appropriate to cover it here. A railroad article would be a better choice, but Illinois Central Railroad does not get into such detail. MB 04:16, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.