Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midway, Bossier Parish, Louisiana

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The result was delete‎. Daniel (talk) 21:37, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Midway, Bossier Parish, Louisiana

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Another "unincorporated community" lie that we are telling the world. It was a post office, and the only information recorded that I can find anywhere is that it was a post office, in a massive 1892 directory of post offices. It's not in the 1880 Lippincott's at all. It's not to be confused with the Midway geologic formation in Louisiana, which is actually per doi:10.3133/pp46 named after a place in Alabama. The "Bossier Parish" chapter in SPC's 1890 History of Louisiana gives 1 sentence to a list of "new post offices" since 1859. And that's it as far as the history books are concerned. This is a post office that even contemporary history ignored. It didn't ignore Thomas Lyles, its postmaster (ironically xyr post office getting scant mention in the biographical sketch, not even to say that it was a post office), but I don't have a second independent source for a biography so cannot refactor. Uncle G (talk) 12:10, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Louisiana. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 14:42, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Thank you, nom for your due diligence that the creator refused to exercise. Non-notable location. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 15:06, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I took a deeper look at the newspaper sources I found when I deprodded the article, and while they do identify Midway as a placename, it's almost always in the content of Thomas Lyles and his business partner, a Mr. Hall. For example, this article says their store at Midway caught fire, and there are a few society pieces like this one. There are also articles like this one that refer to something happening "near Midway". My educated guess is that Midway was most likely just the name for the place where the store was at. If we had an article on Lyles, I'd propose redirecting there, but we don't so we should probably just delete this. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 21:16, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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