Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quaker Hill, Delaware

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The result was redirect to Hockessin, Delaware. —⁠ScottyWong⁠— 16:41, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Could not find any evidence of a community called Quaker Hill at this location. Topos show nothing until a subdivision was built in the 70s or 80s, and the name doesn't appear on maps until 2011. Newspaper searches only returned a neighborhood in Wilmington of the same name. My best guess is that it's another subdivision (we're up to three now that I'm aware of) named after Hockessin Friends Meeting. –dlthewave ☎ 01:42, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. –dlthewave ☎ 01:42, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. –dlthewave ☎ 01:42, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• delete I would guess that this was a subdivision entered from the usual commercial map, but unfortunately GNIS is down for now, so I can't verify that. Anyway, the topos and aerials show nothing but standard suburban development out of a tract of former farmland. Mangoe (talk) 00:55, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• redirect to Hockessin, Delaware, of which it is part. (See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meeting House Hill, Delaware, which one assumes is referred to above. Djflem (talk) 20:27, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If we're considering a redirect, we should think about whether Quaker Hill Historic District (Wilmington, Delaware), Wilmington, Delaware#East of I-95 or a disambiguation page of some sort would be more appropriate, since the Wilmington neighborhood seems to be the primary topic and we're struggling to verify that this one even exists. –dlthewave ☎ 22:14, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Hockessin, Delaware, as it is within the boundaries of the CDP. The Wilmington neighborhood is several miles away. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 23:19, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Eddy, my concern is that readers looking for the Wilmington neighborhood would be directed to Hockessin with no explanation. I'm not sure that we can even mention Quaker Hill in that article without confirmation of what it is. –dlthewave ☎ 12:46, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Hockessin, Delaware. USGS maps show a couple streets and a couple houses in 1901, 1904, 1943, 1954, (the same number of streets and houses, even). The next map below 1:100k scale is 1993, which shows a few cul-de-sacs coming off the road. After that, it's 2011, 2016 and 2019; the USGS decided in their infinite wisdom to stop including useful information on quadrangles at this point, so I don't know how many houses there are, but it doesn't look like much. Google Maps puts the closest thing that isn't a house as Dupont (H.B.) Middle School, which is in Hockessin, Delaware. I will change to "keep" if sources can be found demonstrating that Quaker Hill is a real place name that's been used to refer to anything in archives. What I've found is a few mentions like these, referring to it as a neighborhood. Perhaps @Firsfron: can assist. jp×g 20:23, 16 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm concerned that a redirect to Hockessin would be confusing to readers searching for the Wilmington neighborhood of the same name, especially since we don't have any sources that could support even a mention in the Hockessin article. We don't even know what it is/was! This is definitely about the Wilmington neighborhood, and the two rental ads [1][2] also appear to be in Wilmington. –dlthewave ☎ 01:55, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Well, surely there could be a redirect hatnote, and the GNIS source from the extant Quaker Hill article could support a sentence saying "it was listed in GNIS as an inhabited place" or something similar? jp×g 19:39, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Are you familiar with WP:GNIS? I'm afraid it's not a reliable source for labeling something as a populated place. –dlthewave ☎ 03:09, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I mean, it shows that there is (or was) something called Quaker Hill at that place, somewhen. I don't think a redirect requires that high a burden of proof, beyond "someone might type this in wondering what the hell Quaker Hill is". jp×g 08:36, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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