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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:43, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kegley station (Illinois)[edit]

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No evidence of notability - neither source discusses the station in any detail, and a BEFORE check failed to find any additional coverage.

In this case, after doing a little research, I'm not sure this ever was a passenger station at all. The Edgewood Cutoff article claims that the line never had passenger service; it certainly did not by 1932, just five years after opening. (On the Eldorado District, which crossed the cutoff near the claimed location of Kegley station, there was not a station at Kegley in 1932 nor 1919.) Source #2 in the article lists all stations (i.e. points on a timetable, which includes sidings and freight stations), not just passenger stations, and that 1932 timetable doesn't indicate it as any more than a controlled siding. The image in the external link is consistent with it being a small freight station or section house, rather than a passenger station. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:31, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Transportation and Illinois. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:31, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I can see the article was pointlessy dePRODed for no reason. I find the arguments of the nom overwhelming in supporting deletion of this article. We can't even verify exactly what this supposed station was/is, and its factual accuracy seems poor. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 19:05, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I tend to think that current passenger stations are presumptively notable. A demolished freight station or section house gets no such presumption from me, and I'm persuaded by Pi.1415926535's research that this is what we're dealing with. If additional sources are brought forward to the contrary, then that's a different matter. Mackensen (talk) 19:20, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Other station stubs by creator should be reviewed as well. Cards84664 19:24, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Also see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kegley, Illinois. Jumpytoo Talk 04:07, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. It does not meetWP:GNG, no reliable sources... --Assyrtiko (talk) 06:26, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Per Pi's nomination statement, this does not seem like a station that was ever notable. If it even operated in passenger service (which I doubt), it seems to have been little more than a flag stop with a tiny station house. Regardless, there aren't any sources that actually demonstrate the notability of this station, at least not those that I could find. – Epicgenius (talk) 19:42, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.