The result was keep. Consensus does not lean in the delete direction, issues with content can be fixed through editing. Tone 13:04, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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OK, here we have a weird case, in which part of the US government seems to have misled another part into creating a phantom town. The historical Harmon, as far as I can tell, was nothing more than a siding which may have been used for car storage in the early 1970s and which disappeared shortly thereafter; the earliest topos I could find show a few scattered buildings, but they don't show up in aerials at all and the pattern looks more like a farm than anything else. At any rate, in 1997, log after everything else was gone, a development was started up by the road, and in 2005 the county dug out a lake and a rec area across the road. A few years later, another development of estate homes sprung up north of the lake. So along came the census, and for whatever reason decided some or all of this needed to be recorded as a census designated place, and they called it "Harmon". I couldn't find a name for either of these developments, but it's hard to imagine that either was called just "Harmon"; someone with access to the Bismarck Tribune might be able to look at old real estate sections and find out. Regardless of that, there's just no connection to the old rail spot. We have almost never found notability in a subdivision, and while CDPs are typically taken as notable, it's because usually they do represent the Census's attempt to put boundaries on unincorporated towns and even cities in order to give them a population count, not because it represents some legal recognition; it's the places themselves that are notable. Two subdivisions outside Bismarck are not notable. Mangoe ( talk) 01:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
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"A fairly settled precedent and aspect of the gazetteer function of Wikipedia has been to consistently maintain articles on all American CDPS". There isn't even an agreed "gazetteer function" of Wikipedia. FOARP ( talk) 10:28, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Sandstein
17:49, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Sandstein
09:33, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
The result was keep. Consensus does not lean in the delete direction, issues with content can be fixed through editing. Tone 13:04, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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OK, here we have a weird case, in which part of the US government seems to have misled another part into creating a phantom town. The historical Harmon, as far as I can tell, was nothing more than a siding which may have been used for car storage in the early 1970s and which disappeared shortly thereafter; the earliest topos I could find show a few scattered buildings, but they don't show up in aerials at all and the pattern looks more like a farm than anything else. At any rate, in 1997, log after everything else was gone, a development was started up by the road, and in 2005 the county dug out a lake and a rec area across the road. A few years later, another development of estate homes sprung up north of the lake. So along came the census, and for whatever reason decided some or all of this needed to be recorded as a census designated place, and they called it "Harmon". I couldn't find a name for either of these developments, but it's hard to imagine that either was called just "Harmon"; someone with access to the Bismarck Tribune might be able to look at old real estate sections and find out. Regardless of that, there's just no connection to the old rail spot. We have almost never found notability in a subdivision, and while CDPs are typically taken as notable, it's because usually they do represent the Census's attempt to put boundaries on unincorporated towns and even cities in order to give them a population count, not because it represents some legal recognition; it's the places themselves that are notable. Two subdivisions outside Bismarck are not notable. Mangoe ( talk) 01:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
References
"A fairly settled precedent and aspect of the gazetteer function of Wikipedia has been to consistently maintain articles on all American CDPS". There isn't even an agreed "gazetteer function" of Wikipedia. FOARP ( talk) 10:28, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Sandstein
17:49, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Sandstein
09:33, 27 January 2022 (UTC)