Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bagdad Junction, Washington

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The result was delete.

Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:57, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply

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Bagdad Junction, Washington

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Road junction not community. An accident happened here; mention of a road junction; can't find anything calling it a community or establishing notability. Reywas92^Talk 08:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 08:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 08:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Populated place with GNIS reference, per
WP:GEOLAND. Consensus is that these are default notable, backed by e.g. speedy snow keep at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nelson City, Texas just picking one such decision of many. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply
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GNIS is not always accurate, see various comments in Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Geography. Cxbrx (talk) 17:51, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I could find no reference Bagdad Junction being a "Populated, legal recognized place" as per
WP:GEOLAND. There is no evidence of a Post Office. The coverage is trivial, so the criteria in "Populated places without legal recognition" is not met. Cxbrx (talk) 17:51, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Delete. No evidence this is a populated place of any note. see Google satellite image. It's just a junction. There appears to be agricultural structures in the area but that's it.
YO 😜 18:18, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Delete. No notability for a community or populated place. Ajf773 (talk) 19:08, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is incredibly common for a populated place to be named after a nearby intersection. And not all populated places have their own post office. All delete !votes are red herrings. Smartyllama (talk) 02:19, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It seems to be a place,[1] but it is not so clear if anyone or anything exists there. Likely there was once a town named Bagdad[2] at this location, whereas now only the junction remains. StonyBrook (talk) 04:40, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
.....Hometown locator is not a reliable or useful source whatsoever...it just imports data from the GNIS and collates it with census data and maps. Not sure the vague "Submitted by: Wayne Reid" is reliable either, it's likely someone's ranch was called Bagdad at or near this junction, but my links above and [3] are all I've found mentioning it, no evidence it was a town. Reywas92^Talk 06:38, 24 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
delete What the topo map history shows is that the only thing here besides an intersection was a benchmark and a horizontal control point, both of which seem to have been removed in the 1980s. One suspects the point got named to give names to those survey points. Mangoe (talk) 03:09, 25 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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