Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crumb Corner, Indiana
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 11:26, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
Crumb Corner, Indiana
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Here is an example of how WP:GEOLAND puts us in a bind. Ultimately, the only source here is the topos, with some ratification from aerial photography. And what they show is that back seventy years or so, there was a cluster of buildings at an intersection, with the label "Crumb Corner". Urbanization crept up to it and then around it, but the original spot was completely erased in favor of a limited access interchange, and the label disappeared. Then, as typical in the 2013 maps, it was apparently back-added from GNIS. That's what the maps show, but I cannot verify this any other way. All of the even vaguely relevant GHits are gazetteers. clickbait, or routine "list all the placenames" stuff. I can find nothing that says anything about this specific spot that didn't come off those maps. Is this spot still called "Crumb Corner"? Are people even aware of this spot if they don't look at some map?I can't tell. I'm having a great deal of trouble justifying an article on a place where the only way we can tell the potential truth about a place— that is was wiped out by highway construction— is through the interpretation of maps and aerials. Mangoe (talk) 03:02, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Shellwood (talk) 09:48, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete A freeway interchange is not a community...the "is" in the first sentence of the article is a lie. If someone were to rewrite the article about a historical place by this name, then that's fine, but then we'd need more information than we could get from old maps. Fails WP:GEOLAND and WP:OR, and a perfect example of how transcribing databases into articles leads to misinformation. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 11:11, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
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