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The result was redirect to Amelia, Virginia. Daniel (talk) 22:52, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Scotts Fork, Virginia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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A fork in the road at a "Five Forks Road" where an Exxon gas station is, likely not a community.

Possible relevant Newspapers.com results:

https://www.newspapers.com/image/616170124/?terms=%22Scotts%20Fork%22%20Amelia%20County&match=1 (between Scotts Fork)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/615483821/?terms=%22Scotts%20Fork%22%20Amelia%20County&match=1 (Scotts Fork Baseball Team?)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/615803490/?terms=%22Scotts%20Fork%22%20Amelia%20County&match=1 (at Scotts Fork near ... Amelia County)

https://www.newspapers.com/image/615863886/?terms=%22Scotts%20Fork%22%20Amelia%20County&match=1 (Real estate listing) wizzito | say hello! 04:14, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. wizzito | say hello! 04:14, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. wizzito | say hello! 04:14, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Per WP:NOTGAZETTEER, whilst it incorporates features of one, Wikipedia is not a gazetteer. This means it does not include bare listings of locales, even if populated, that are not at least legally-recognised populated places (e.g., incorporated towns) under WP:GEOLAND or otherwise are WP:GNG passes. There is no evidence here that Five Forks Road has ever been a legally-recognised populated place. Instead, this 1980's GNIS print-out describes it as only a "locale", not even populated. I think there was probably also a WP:BOTPOL issue with the way this article was created, as it appears to have been produced in a WP:MEATBOT-style article-creation campaign. Here's what the minutes immediately before the creation of this article looked like for the article creator in terms of article-creation:

  18:19, 17 December 2010 diff hist +331‎ N Wilsons Corner, Virginia ‎ another county down

  18:19, 17 December 2010 diff hist +325‎ N Truxillo, Virginia ‎ another

  18:19, 17 December 2010 diff hist +328‎ N Scotts Fork, Virginia ‎ another

  18:18, 17 December 2010 diff hist +325‎ N Rodophil, Virginia ‎ another

  18:18, 17 December 2010 diff hist +327‎ N Paineville, Virginia ‎ another

  18:18, 17 December 2010 diff hist +326‎ N Otterburn, Virginia ‎ another

  18:18, 17 December 2010 diff hist +325‎ N Namozine, Virginia ‎ another

  18:18, 17 December 2010 diff hist +323‎ N Moryen, Virginia ‎ another

  18:18, 17 December 2010 diff hist +324‎ N Mattoax, Virginia ‎ another

  18:18, 17 December 2010 diff hist +330‎ N Masons Corner, Virginia ‎ another

  18:17, 17 December 2010 diff hist +1‎ N Maplewood, Virginia ‎ another

  18:17, 17 December 2010 diff hist +325‎ N Mannboro, Virginia ‎ another

  18:16, 17 December 2010 diff hist +323‎ N Lodore, Virginia ‎ another

  18:16, 17 December 2010 diff hist +327‎ N Haw Branch, Virginia ‎ another

  18:15, 17 December 2010 diff hist +322‎ N Gills, Virginia ‎ another

  18:15, 17 December 2010 diff hist +327‎ N Giles Mill, Virginia ‎ another

  18:15, 17 December 2010 diff hist +327‎ N Fieldstown, Virginia ‎ another

  18:15, 17 December 2010 diff hist +322‎ N Earls, Virginia ‎ another

  18:15, 17 December 2010 diff hist +323‎ N Denaro, Virginia ‎ another

  18:15, 17 December 2010 diff hist +328‎ N Deatonville, Virginia ‎ another

  18:15, 17 December 2010 diff hist +324‎ N Coverly, Virginia ‎ another

  18:14, 17 December 2010 diff hist +333‎ N Clementown Mills, Virginia ‎ another

  18:14, 17 December 2010 diff hist +318‎ N Chula, Virginia ‎ another

  18:14, 17 December 2010 diff hist +318‎ N Ammon, Virginia ‎ fill redlinks

That's 24 articles in five minutes. I think we can say pretty straight forwardly that the amount of care applied in the creation of these articles was minimal. Of course this was all a very long time ago and probably the author has change their behaviour in the mean-time, and Wikipedia was a very different place in 2010. All the same I think a bulk-delete of unimproved articles based simply on GNIS may be in order, similar to what was done with the California GNIS listings created by Carlossuarrez46. FOARP (talk) 16:21, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Amelia, Virginia. Of thirteen results... someone made a phone call from there in 1909. Someone lost a handbag between there and Amelia C.H. in 1924. There was a baseball game there in 1936, a general store was there in 1954, a baseball team was from there in 1960 and a road went there in 1977. jp×g 00:05, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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