The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep as disambiguation page. Sandstein 10:17, 4 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Camden Wyoming, Delaware

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These articles merely describe a combination of two individual towns, Camden, Delaware and Wyoming, Delaware. They cite no references, are poorly written, and the information about each town can be presented in their own articles. Dough4872 (talk) 02:21, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

fixed and added. DCEdwards ¹⁹⁶⁶ 19:59, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment See U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Camden Wyoming Post Office on the GNIS: there's somewhat of recognition. I'll come back later. Nyttend (talk) 14:55, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both "Camden Wyoming" and "Camden-Wyoming". Not an actual town. It just so happens that the two towns are under one ZIP code and that the U.S. post office has chosen the name "Camden Wyoming" most likely because neither town is dominant over the other. Any content that one can put in this article would probably be better in the actual municipality articles. One can always mention in both the Camden and Wyoming articles that it shares the same ZIP code with the other. --Polaron | Talk 16:32, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Looking at the Postal Service's ZIP Code lookup, I find that the ZIP Code 19934 (serving both of these communities) is officially named Camden Wyoming, Delaware. I really don't think we should delete, as it would be better not to have a redlink for a post office name: but what should we do? I think that the best solution would be to turn it into somewhat of a disambiguation page: have something saying that the post office name is CW, named for two towns located in the ZIP Code area: C and W. Nyttend (talk) 19:39, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Perhaps a small page on the status of the two towns in terms of postal services, etc., and linking to the individual towns for more detailed information? Torinir ( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options ) 20:50, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep if turned into a disambiguation page for the two towns. If the two towns share more than just a ZIP code, such as schools, police or fire departments, then an article about the dual-city might be feasible. The only other alternative I see is to redirect to one or the other, but which? DCEdwards ¹⁹⁶⁶ 20:03, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Normally I'd advocate a redirect to the more impressive one, but the reason you give is the reason I didn't want to: neither one is much more impressive than the other. Nyttend (talk) 04:26, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Delaware-related deletion discussions. —Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:17, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep mainly as DAB page. Neier (talk) 23:45, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, treelo _radda 00:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 10:24, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as a DAB page to the individual towns. The Census data on population, size, demographics in the article are for the Census Zip Code Tabulation Area for Zip 19934. The ZCTA has a population of 9,500, but the combined population for both towns is a little over 3,000. From that standpoint alone, the article is innaccurate. Moreover, the official Town of Camden website indicates that while water and sewer and fire department are jointly handled by both Camden and Wyoming, "efforts to merge the two towns have been rejected by one or both of the towns several times."[1] It appears the name of the post office is merely a convenience, since the U.S. Postal Service accepts both Camden, DE and Wyoming, DE as acceptable addresses for Zip 19934.DCmacnut <> 16:03, 29 September 2008 (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.