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Sockweb (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable band, with several sources being from the record label themselves. GarethBaloney (talk) 20:46, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Wikipedia:NOTNOTABLE. ~2025-34392-86 (talk) 20:51, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Philip Station, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Here we have a novelty: a new rail point, the site of a wye connecting the main line to the A. B. Brown Generating Station, which was built in 1979; and indeed, there is nothing at this point until after that date. Presumably it’s called Philip Station because Saint Philip is (at least on GMaps) not too far to the northeast, but at any rate this is not and was not a settlement. Mangoe (talk) 02:47, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prairie, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Two houses at a crossroads do not house 5,999 people unless one of them has a lot of beds hidden in its basement, or unless one misreads the census and confuses this place with the township of the same name. Not sure why this spot has a name but it’s not a town. Mangoe (talk) 03:36, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. jolielover♥talk 04:03, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: The census reference does link to a Prairie Township in Henry County, not any unincorporated territory in Posey County. I would be curious to know if there is more information or if this is a CDP before voting for deletion. ~RAM (talk) 06:19, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The Prairie Township linked to in the census reference is in Henry County, hundreds of miles away, suggesting someone wasn’t careful to read their references. This leaves only GNIS as a source, which isn’t reliable. USGS topo maps do show several houses and a church in 1917, but essentially nothing since then: [1]. I didn’t do a thorough search through newspaper archives or anything, but nothing was found in a cursory web search. Unless sources can be found I say delete. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 11:58, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – per WeirdNAnnoyed. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 18:09, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The Aldridge family came in 1810 from North Carolina. The father was John Aldridge, who was a blacksmith, and the sons were Samuel, Elijah, Reuben, Henry, William and Aaron. The Todd family, also, came from North Carolina, their native town being Charlottesville. The original members of the family in Black township were William and Hugh. Other families who settled in the township before the battle of Tippecanoe were the Rowes, Dunns, Jeffries and the Andrews, Nestlers, Ashworths, Frenches, Bacons, Kennedys, the Burlisons, Joseph Holleman, Thomas Russell and George Harshman, who located in what is known as Prairie Settlement. From “History of Posey County, Indiana”. This is likely where the name comes from, it was a settlement. I was unable to find much more on this settlement, but it is likely organized around Prairie Chapel, which I created a page on one of its preachers, Moses Ashworth, so that could be a possible redirect target. Katzrockso (talk) 02:35, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Heusler, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Kind of a marginal case, in that this clearly came into being as a 4th class post office, but there is a diffuse area around the spot and a Heusler church. And there are some passing references but not enough to make clear what people thought of the place. Mangoe (talk) 16:48, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Clearly notable place with plenty of material to write an article. See [2] [3]. Also plenty of articles about the Heusler dome field where oil drilling took place in the 1930s. Katzrockso (talk) 08:31, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hepburn, Indiana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Another 4th class post office in an isolated spot. Not getting anything else. Mangoe (talk) 16:20, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. There is significant coverage about the indictment and trial of Allie Anderson, postmaster at Hepburn [5]. Explicitly referred to as a “small village” (later Loren Merl Anderson [1902-1984], Allie’s son, referred to it as his place of birth in his WWII draft record). Katzrockso (talk) 09:32, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seth Moses (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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I couldn’t find any WP:SIGCOV that satisfies me that he meets WP:NFOOTY and therefore fails and also fails WP:GNG. He did have an MLS contract but he never actually played a regular season game for the Seattle Sounders. Servite et contribuere (talk) 14:43, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Sportspeople, Football, South Korea, Austria, Liechtenstein, Puerto Rico, United States of America, California, Indiana, Maryland, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Servite et contribuere (talk) 14:43, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football‘s list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 10:00, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete – no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. GiantSnowman 10:04, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• FWIW, some coverage spanning nine years from 2009 to 2017: “Loch Raven, Bays alum Moses joins Austrian club” (2011), “Moses’ versatility key” (2009), “Puerto Rico Adds To Back Line With Seth Moses Signing” (2017). Cbl62 (talk) 17:19, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment – @Servite et contribuere: How could you include a lot of countries alongside U.S. states for this nomination when he was born in Maryland, United States? NFOOTY doesn’t exist anymore, so I prefer delete. ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚｡⋆ 13:33, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Clariniie Because he played for teams in those countries and those states. Servite et contribuere (talk) 17:25, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep based on the sources found by Cbl62. Bearian (talk) 04:31, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]