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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 12:41, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of Kilgore, Texas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Poorly conceived "timeline" article for a small city (pop. 13K) with no significant events being listed to justify the need for a "timeline". This is the type of thing we can spin out for communities where there's actual substance for the list to contain, but it isn't a thing that every town or city in the world automatically gets as a matter of course -- but apart from "Establishment of Kilgore College", referenced to Kilgore College's own self-published website about itself rather than a WP:GNG-worthy news article, this otherwise consists exclusively of random population updates with no other significant or properly sourced events listed.
The creator of this has also tried to arbitrarily create a full-on Kilgore-specific WikiProject without going through the proper processes for that (or justifying why a small city with a population of just 13,000 people would need its own full-on WikiProject in the first place), which isn't a deletion rationale in and of itself but does suggest that they need some education in how Wikipedia actually works.
No prejudice against recreation in the future if and when there's substantive content to list, but we would need to see a lot more than just community population estimates. Bearcat (talk) 12:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 12:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and merge into city article. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:05, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Lists. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:22, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete No evidence that the history of this small town is voluminous or well-sourced enough to require a separate article. Absolutely everything in it (except the 1935 establishment of Kilgore College) is already in the Kilgore article, so there is nothing to merge except for a sentence about the establishment of the college. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 21:20, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WeirdNAnnoyed, would probably group History of Kilgore, Texas and Sports in Kilgore as well, as I think it could reasonably be included as part of the history and sports portions of the article. reppop^talk 22:31, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. The only sourced and relevant content present in this article but not in History of Kilgore, Texas is the 1935 founding of Kilgore College. The History of Kilgore article covers the same topic and is only 2,000 words long, so it doesn't make sense to split off content into a separate "timeline" article (WP:WHENSPLIT). Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 03:56, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete not enough content for a timeline article. History page serves it just fine. -1ctinus📝🗨 22:19, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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