Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kierieian, Rhode Island

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:07, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kierieian, Rhode Island

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Non-notable geostub and possible hoax Carpimaps (talk) 03:01, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Seems likely a hoax. If you look at the Hopkinton township on Google Maps, this supposed village shows up at the 1,000 feet level. But if you zoom in more closely, that label disappears, and there's nothing there except maybe some trees. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:17, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a hoax. This reddit thread, although definitely not reliable, show that people think it's a hoax. GNIS brings up no results, and I can't find anything else that indicates that this is a real place. JML1148 (Talk | Contribs) 05:28, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Rhode Island. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 07:28, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Two other creations from this user - Neufa, Connecticut and Haygarden, Rhode Island - also have zero GNIS hits and nothing relevant on Newspapers.com, and I'm inclined to label them hoaxes as well. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 08:12, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oops. Didn't refresh the page this morning, so accidentally renominated it. Here was my deletion rationale: A new account edited the article to say the place is a hoax and was, of course, reverted. Still, it caught my interest enough to look into it. There *are* some obscure villages in this area, but thus far I'm not able to find any evidence at all that this place exists. There are also a Reddit and Facebook thread where locals discuss it, in which none of them seem to know about it, either. I noticed that one of the other unsourced stubs of Rhode Island villages the same user created, Bethel, Rhode Island even includes the line "Bethel is not commonly known among residents", which is... unusual. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 13:26, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - if this is a hoax, note that it shows up on Google maps and Bing maps with an arrow pointer. But if you enlarge the area, doesn't seem like anything exists near that arrow — Maile (talk) 14:38, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Rhode Island resident here. Hopkinton has a number of villages: there's Hope Valley, Locustville (essentially absorbed by Hope Valley), Wyoming, Centerville/Moscow, Ashaway, Canonchet, and I haven't even listed all of them... all are easily verifiable as real places with notable histories. This supposed village, however, appears to be fiction. I note this article's author is the same as the Bethel article, which certainly merits a closer look. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:51, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I just took Bethel to AfD. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 15:09, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. See also Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous#Does Kierieian, Rhode Island exist?: nobody could find a reference for it apart from a few passing mentions that might be WP inspired. Alansplodge (talk) 17:33, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – the article now says The village is located around Rhode Island Route 216 at Ashaway Road but according to maps Route 216 is Ashaway Road, hmm. —Tamfang (talk) 18:09, 8 May 2023 (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.