Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noah, Arizona

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The result was redirect to Tacna, Arizona. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:16, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Noah, Arizona

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A searching nightmare, but the maps say this was a rail stop named Tacna before being renamed at some point. Other than that, nothing there. Mangoe (talk) 04:49, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Arizona. Shellwood (talk) 06:39, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm not entirely sure this place exists as an entity at all. Antelope Union High School (itself questionably notable, at first glance) and a couple of churches are the nearest buildings, but are all considered part of Wellton, Arizona. Redirect per RecycledPixels below. 3mi1y (talk) 22:55, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Tacna, Arizona based on the interesting, and fairly lengthy (for this book) account of the town in the Arizona Place Names (1960), pages 386-387. In brief, what was an old railroad siding out in the middle of nowhere was used by a huckster from Texas to sell a bunch of real estate out in the middle of nowhere. The old railroad siding was called Tacna, the huckster, Max B. Noah, used that name for the town he created out of nothing, and the railroad changed the name of the original siding to Noah. RecycledPixels (talk) 09:30, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That's actually kind of hilarious. If I read this correctly, the place currently known as Tacna is the town Max B. Noah founded, and the place currently known as Noah (formerly Tacna) is just a railroad siding and nothing else? 3mi1y (talk) 22:19, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is no mention of Noah in the Tacna article. Redirecting is a bad idea under those circumstances. Something needs to be written in there first. SpinningSpark 22:26, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've also added a brief History section to Tacna, Arizona, and suggest redirecting to that section specifically. 3mi1y (talk) 22:41, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect per 3mi1y now that something exists in the target. SpinningSpark 09:34, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Tacna, Arizona. ~Pog ing Juan 12:47, 24 October 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.