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The result was redirect to Arizona World War II Army Airfields. Missvain ( talk) 19:58, 7 December 2020 (UTC) reply

Colfred, Arizona

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This article is a mess to begin with because it juxtaposes two subjects. The airfield is not really independently notable: it was one of the Arizona World War II Army Airfields, in this case one of seven auxiliary fields connected to Yuma Army Air Field (the latter long since reconfigured as a USMC base) and variously abandoned or repurposed at war's end. The only source I could find of any length was an SPS on abandoned airports. As best I can tell it never operated as anything like a regular airport, either civilian or military.

Colfred itself was not a settlement; it was yet another in a series of passing sidings on the SP line across southern Arizona. It appears to have been taken up relatively early as these things go, as there's no trace of it in a 1953 aerial other than the telltale swerve of old US 80 to make room for it; Gmaps shows that the line was a some point double-tracked, and there is now a very short siding. There's also no trace of anything else, and no buildings appear until the 1960s, and GMaps claims that it is part of a farm. I can see making Colfred Army Air Field a redirect to appropriately merged material, but this article itself needs to just go away. Mangoe ( talk) 04:59, 22 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 09:53, 22 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU ^(T) 09:53, 22 November 2020 (UTC) reply

• Redirect to Arizona World War II Army Airfields where I've merged the info on the WWII airfield. Concur with nom that this was just another passing siding. I also created Colfred Army Air Field as a redirect, but think Colfred, Arizona should redirect there also. MB 18:12, 22 November 2020 (UTC) reply

• Speedy Keep The editors above tell us that they have or will merge material and so deletion is unacceptable -- see WP:MAD for details. Note also that there's more to say about the topic. For example, the meaning of the placename appears in sources such as Arizona Place Names and Scratch Ankle, U.S.A. – American Place Names and Their Derivation. As Wikipedia is a gazetteer, we should expand and maintain this information per WP:ATD, "If editing can improve the page, this should be done rather than deleting the page. Andrew🐉( talk) 23:02, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply
• Redirect to Arizona World War II Army Airfields. "Deletion is unacceptable" doesn't logically mandate a "speedy keep", as WP:AFD makes clear that merge and redirect are acceptable votes and outcomes. Existence of a place name does not mandate a separate article and its origin alone is not adequate content for an article nor establishes notability. No evidence this is a notable populated place. Reywas92 ^Talk 04:40, 1 December 2020 (UTC) reply
• Redirect to Arizona World War II Army Airfields. The attribution from the merge rules out deletion, but there's no reason to keep this as an article when it's been proven to not be a notable community and a redirect would serve for attribution in the edit history. Hog Farm _Bacon 06:17, 1 December 2020 (UTC) reply
• Redirect to Arizona World War II Army Airfields, the useful content has already been merged. Devonian Wombat ( talk) 21:18, 5 December 2020 (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.