Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North Flinty Knoll

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 (talk) 02:09, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

North Flinty Knoll

This VfD also applies to Double, North Carolina, as per Zoe. -- Curps 00:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Zero Google hits. Also, there doesn't seem to be a "Reynolds, North Carolina" or "Reynolds County, North Carolina". Also, this user (who uses an anonymous IP range) is a very persistent vandal: lots of childish vandalism (see recent history of Luxembourg and Mississippi and Stokes County, North Carolina and per capita income and many, many other pages). All of his contributions before and after creating this article were vandalism. In addition to childish vandalism, he creates transparently preposterous hoax articles (see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The Carlow Crab). Based on his track record and lack of Google hits or verifiability, this article too is very likely false, and in any case is not notable. -- Curps 15:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy delete, as "Flinty Knoll" has already been CSD'd as patent nonsense (claims to statehood, etc) — Lomn | Talk 16:20:41, 2005-08-20 (UTC)
• Delete. Based on a Google search, there is a Flinty Knoll precinct in Stokes County, NC (apparently in Quaker Gap township) and a Flinty Knoll Road in Pinnacle, North Carolina in Stokes County, so there is probably some validity to the name "Flinty Knoll". However the Geographic Names Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey gives no place names in North Carolina with that name except a "Flinty Knoll Church" in Richmond County, NC[1]. I could find no references to North Flinty Knoll and I could not find enough information to even expand this into a real stub on Flinty Knoll. -- DS1953 19:18, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

I have added Double, North Carolina to this Vfd. Delete both. Zoe 22:44, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

Note that there is an entire Category:Stokes County, North Carolina with a few dozen entries, fairly remarkable for a county with only 45,000 people. Most of these place names do seem to be real though very obscure [2], although "Double" and "Gap" don't appear there. -- Curps 00:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• That entire county needs looking at. The original Rambot additions only added two towns in the county, and a repeatedly-reverted vandal added all the reest. We need to figure out how many are real. Zoe 04:26, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • If we believe placenames.com, nearly all of them are real. "Gap" and "Double" aren't listed, so I added them to this VfD (Gap now removed again), but the rest should go into a separate VfD if at all (perhaps on grounds of non-notability). Note this map only shows Danbury, King, Germanton, Walnut Cove as population centers, so non-notability could certainly be argued for the rest. Hanging Rock State Park is also in Stokes County and is notable. -- Curps 14:05, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Gap" appears in the GNIS (but as a "locale" rather than a "populated place"). Regardless, I've removed it from this VfD... it can go into any planned Stokes County VfD with the others (but again I would exclude Danbury, King, Germanton, Walnut Cove). -- Curps 14:25, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. per above. Dottore So 05:39, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment, though I am perfectly happy to have my delete vote also apply to Double, North Carolina, I think it is very poor practice to add and delete new pages to a VfD vote after several editors have already voted. -- DS1953 17:02, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • That's a very valid point, we need to avoid that in the future. The admin who closes this VfD can make the call as to whether to include it. -- Curps 01:03, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete this and also Double, North Carolina. I checked a couple of the others and they verify as Curps said; Topozone is another good place to look (e.g. here [3] for Dalton). Anything added by a 63.19.*.* IP is suspicious. Antandrus (talk) 03:07, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Uncyclopedia has deleted Carlow Crab. I want it back on this website.

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