Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balls Island

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The result was delete‎. Sandstein 18:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Balls Island

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Fails WP:NATFEAT. "Named natural features are often notable, provided information beyond statistics and coordinates is known to exist. [...] If a Wikipedia article cannot be developed using known sources, information on the feature can instead be included in a more general article on local geography. For example, a river island with no information available except name and location should probably be described in an article on the river". The small island seems to be of little significance, with no hope of expanding it to an encyclopedic article. Geschichte (talk) 15:36, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography, New York, and Islands. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 17:59, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This claims it was featured in national geographic [1], any thoughts on how to confirm and evaluate the claim.James.folsom (talk) 23:18, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't know what to do. The link above is just a real estate ad, and they could be lying about national geographic. But if it's true then it might be notable. I can't find any mention in the newspapers for this. so I could accept that maybe there is a single secondary source on this place and still vote delete. But, I don't think others are going to go along with that. As far as I can tell, only national geographic subscribers can search their back issues, so....James.folsom (talk) 23:34, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Walter F. Burmeister's book The Susquehanna River and Its Tributaries gives this a sentence, and even then discusses this only as part of a group of islets. If even that doesn't document this island in depth, there is indeed little hope for expansion. Uncle G (talk) 01:15, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Even if the National Geo article exists, it's probably just a list of river islands or some such. If that article had said anything quotable about this place, the real estate ad would certainly have quoted it.James.folsom (talk) 22:04, 14 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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