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The result was delete. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:31, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kegley, Illinois[edit]

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I did find a photo of the station, but as far as I can tell that building constituted the entirety of this "community". Searching found nothing of substance beyond the photo. Mangoe (talk) 14:53, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:27, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:27, 28 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I cannot see a relevant redirect, I did not find any historical references in newspapers. The station is a nice historic photo, the topo map does not reveal any life. Lightburst (talk) 02:23, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - No evidence of notability for this rail stop. –dlthewave ☎ 15:39, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Franklin County, Illinois where it is already in the list of unincorporated places. It would have to be unlinked, moved to a new section "Other named locations": Kegley, a former rail depot on Illinois Central Railroad,^[1] located on Illinois Route 34 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Thompsonville. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MB (talk • contribs) 04:29, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Newspapers.com, Proquest, and Gale each come up with zero mentions of a place by the name of "Kegley, Illinois". There does not actually appear to have been a human settlement here, so it doesn't appear to gain presumed notability via WP:GEOLAND. There being a single photograph on what appears to be a self-published railroad enthusiast's site does not establish that the place was an inhabited human settlement; a single railroad station floating in the middle of farmland does not meet this qualification. At the end of the day, the sources that we have for the name "Kegley, Illinois" is a comment written by an unknown individual on top of a photograph and a self-published website that hosts it, as well as USGS—these don't feel like a reliable source for the purpose of determining this as a notable populated place—and the photo is an extremely primary source. And, absent WP:SIGCOV, there's no way that this is notable. A redirect to what appears to be a blip that has never received any coverage outside of a single photograph published in a blog doesn't seem warranted, so I would oppose the creation of a redirect. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 05:29, 5 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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