Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zoar, Delaware
Mangoe, you are doing important work, and it needs to continue. That being said, it's been fairly easy to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zoar%2C_Delaware&type=revision&diff=1036234786&oldid=1036118163 source this article using Newspaper Archive and Google Books, and I may try to find some additional sources tomorrow. According to my research, Zoar Church actually dates to the 1700s, according to several sources, although it is now on its third building. The references to the Zoar church are in the hundreds, and tend to drown out references to the ''place'', but they are there: NewspaperArchive has several articles which mention people living "in Zoar" or "near Zoar". Books like https://books.google.com/books?id=Wu9jAAAAIAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&hl=en this have been calling Zoar a settlement since at least 1966 (that's the earliest I've been able to find, but there may be earlier references). And Google maps shows there are houses within 300 feet of the church, despite your position that there is ''no settlement, only a church''. Per , "Cities and villages anywhere in the world are generally kept, regardless of size or length of existence, as long as that existence can be verified through a reliable source." Wikipedia |is a gazetteer in addition to being an encyclopedia, which is why we have articles on communities. Because this project is , here's no reason to delete this article on a community noted as being a populated place and which appears as a community on https://maps.sussexcountyde.gov/OnlineMap/Map.html on local government maps in addition to US Geological Survey sources
— User:Firsfron, 09:37, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPLACE||WP:5P||WP:NOTPAPER (Wikipedia:Notability)