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Not Notable[edit]

This populated place (Pyramid, GNIS 853007) is not notable. GNIS shows that there are 82 "populated places" in Washoe County. Pyramid has no citations. It first appears in a 1964 topo map (Pyramid Lake SW). Looking at the imaging, it looks like a single ranch house. See http://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Pyramid for details. There are plenty of other locations in Washoe County that are far more notable, such as Deep Hole, which is where Landers signed a treaty. Pyramid City is a historical location that has far more citations that Pyramid. Cxbrx (talk) 07:49, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like Pyramid was a station on the Fernley and Lassen Railway, between between Bristol and Big Canyon, see http://www.railwaystationlists.co.uk/pdfusarr/nevadarrs.pdf. Myrick, who wrote a number of books about railroads, does not mention Pyramid, but does mention "Zenoiba" (sic) aka Zenobia, which was between Big Canyon and Astor. The GNIS Entry for "Pyramid Post Office (historical)" cites "Gamett, James, and Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Post Offices. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1983, 176 pp. Discusses historical background of Nevada post offices. p108". The GNIS locations for Pyramid and Pyramid Post Office (Historical) are the same, so there is at least one reliable citation for Pyramid. Looking at WP:NGEO, this subject of this page has not received significant coverage from independent sources, so I'm going to mark it for possible deletion. Cxbrx (talk) 05:50, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:TheCatalyst31 removed the notability tag, the edit summary was "all settlements are notable". Thanks for taking a look at this, I appreciate the effort. I have mixed feelings about this, but will leave the article as is. WP:GEOLAND says "Per Wikipedia's Five pillars, the encyclopedia also functions as a gazetteer; therefore, geographical features meeting Wikipedia's General notability guideline (GNG) are presumed, but not guaranteed, to be notable. Therefore, the notability of some geographical features (places, roadways, objects, etc.) may be called into question." and "Populated, legally-recognized places are typically considered notable, even if their population is very low. Even abandoned places can remain notable, because notability encompasses their entire history. One exception is that census tracts are usually not considered notable." WP:GNG states ' "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material'. I was able to find one [citeable original source (Gamett and Paher), which is a book that lists former post offices. That book is a great resource, but I question as to whether being trivially listed there means a location is notable. Personally, I think WP:NOTDIRECTORY should override WP:GEOLAND, but I'll take this to indicate that former railway stations and former post offices in Nevada that are listed as "populated places" in GNIS are notable. I don't think Wikipedia is better with articles with such a low level of notability. Consider what Wikipedia would be if we applied a similar level of citations to determine the notability of people. Perhaps I'll eventually follow up in Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(geographic_features). Thanks again for taking a look at this. Cxbrx (talk) 02:36, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pyramid City and Pyramid Mining District[edit]

Some good-faith edits were made in 2018 by MauraWen where some text about Pyramid City and the Pyramid Mining District were added to this page. The issue here is that Pyramid (historical) aka Pyramid City and Pyramid Mining District are located about 16 miles south of Pyramid. I think the best solution is to create a separate page for Pyramid City and move the text there. Pyramid City is the name that Thompson and West (1881) use, so it seems right. For details see the Pyramid City page I wrote awhile ago. Cxbrx (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cxbrx Thanks for resolving this issue. MauraWen (talk) 23:19, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]