Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pine Station, Indiana

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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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:54, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pine Station, Indiana

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All maps and aerials from before the Wabash abandonment show a wye interchange with no structures around it. It's a little difficult to search because of the Pine Station in PA (which also has an Indiana) but what I'm finding is a lot of RR-related passing mentions. The Pine Station Nature Preserve is nowhere near here; it's in Gary. Even without rails the old right-of-way is perfectly obvious, but it is entirely embedded in a forested area with no buildings anywhere. So, a NN rail spot. Mangoe (talk) 05:31, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Shellwood (talk) 07:58, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:V and WP:GEOLAND. There doesn't appear to be a reliable source which says the subject exists, which is necessary for us to have an article. Furthermore GEOLAND only grants near-automatic notability to legally recognised populated places, which this isn't, and without that it has to pass the GNG (and it clearly doesn't). The claim that there's a community there now definitely isn't true, satellites just show a patch of forest. Hut 8.5 19:43, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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