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The result was delete. ✗plicit 14:31, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Raso, Arizona (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Even the place names books call this a rail spot, and they are the only sources of info besides GNIS and old topos, the latter showing a passing siding and nothing else. It's not a notable settlement or anything else. Mangoe (talk) 13:38, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Shellwood (talk) 13:58, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question Can you point to any guidelines governing notability of places like this? I'm not seeing them, but suspect we're not writing on a blank slate here. My inclination, when dealing with something historical, is to keep if we can find sufficient sources to write an article -- I don't worry very much about self-promotion when we're talking about ghost towns and the like. But there's probably a standard that provides more guidance than that... TheOtherBob 17:26, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that WP:GEOLAND is the primary subject-specific WP:Notability guideline covering this. Skynxnex (talk) 19:11, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You should also read WP:GNIS to understand the problems with the principal source for this article. Mangoe (talk) 22:02, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Rail sidings are not populated places, no notable community. If there is anything historic worth mentioning about this location, it should be in another article such as History of the Southern Pacific. MB 17:20, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I find stray mentions of the place in books, but nothing that indicates it was a notable settlement historically (or at least outside of similar abandoned sidings in aggregate) and it certainly ain't now. Doesn't meet GEOLAND. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 21:11, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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