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Ring Hill, Maine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Found during WP:JUN25; taking to AFD rather than PROD as I am not familiar with the standard geographic place sources for Maine. Unsourced since creation in 2008 and tagged as such since 2017. There is search noise from a hiking trail in a nature park in Greenwood, Maine and from the Ring Hill Airport but as best as I can tell the Ring Hill in Litchfield was originally a stock farm on a literal hill, which has since given its name to a small housing development; this doesn't seem to meet WP:GNG or WP:GEOLAND unless I'm really missing something. Hog Farm _Talk 20:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Maine. Hog Farm _Talk 20:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Older topo maps show only the geographic feature of Ring Hill on the east side of Pleasant Pond, in Sagadahoc County, and villages (at least houses too dense for individual mapping) at Litchfield Plains and Litchfield Corners. It's mentioned in the minutes of the Litchfield town meeting for April 27, 2020 "Locations below Ring Hill on the Plains and Thorofare Roads and the south east corner on Dead River Road have [cellphone service] issues" but that doesn't indicate to me that it's a populated place per se. The cemetery marked in the vicinity on current topos appears to be the Robinson Cemetery, associated with a family rather than a church. Dig as I will, I don't find evidence that this was a meaningful populated place. Choess (talk) 18:41, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - non-notable stock farm. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 21:01, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Grace Baptist School (Portland, Maine) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Kept at AFD in 2008; apparently largely on the then-held basis that all schools are notable. Tagged as unsourced since 2018 and appears to have been generally unsourced since creation aside from linking to the school's website. This is not really significant coverage. There are other such brief descriptions in the newspapers.com archives of the Evening Express, most of which are mainly drawn from interviews with the school's administration. Some minor coverage in this book but I don't think we can base an article meeting WP:NORG for a nonprofict private school based on brief annual newspaper announcements stating that the school had opened for the year and two brief passages in a book stating that the school had strict rules about hairstyles and that a "Let's get rowdy" cheer chant had been suppressed. The 2008 AFD included a reference to sources existing but none were produced. Hog Farm _Talk 05:16, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Christianity, and Maine. Hog Farm _Talk 05:16, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: The first nomination was at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grace Baptist School; in 2013, a few years after that nomination, it was determined that there was no primary topic for "Grace Baptist School", such that this article was renamed and Grace Baptist School has pointed to Grace Baptist (then a dab page but now an article) ever since. (I note this for completeness; I have no opinion on the article or its sourcing, potential or otherwise.) WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I found 5 news articles related to the school's history, but did not find any sources describing its closure. I thin it's worth keeping as a record of an institution that served the community. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 03:03, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]