The result was no consensus. leaning Keep. We see articles like this so many times at AFD that I think an RFC might be useful to make these closures more decisive. Right now, I see no consensus. Liz Read! Talk! 04:33, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Checking the maps, I see only roads and fields. It seems to be a trivial GNIS entry. I did not initiate PROD because the consensus on having such articles is not clear. बिनोद थारू ( talk) 04:36, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
The genealogical society's transcription of the atlas is not very trustworthy, as the original did not say "paste in here" in the Joplin Lead Mines as that WWW page does. And we really cannot repeat 19th century fawning such as "fine farms" and "thrifty and industrious population" in Wikipedia. Furthermore since that 1876 history with the fawning subtracted amounts to not much has happened yet a history from a lot later than 1876 is clearly needed.
Which there will not be. Missouri had optional township government in 1872, abolished just after that history was published, and then again in 1879 under its new 1875 constitution. Even by 1997 only 23 counties in Missouri had opted for any township government at all, which went down to 22 in 2001, and Jasper has not ever been one of them. For Jasper and the rest, Lincoln is just a survey rectangle.
बिनोद थारू ( talk) 03:25, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Census tracts, Abadi, and other areas not commonly recognized as a place (such as the area in an irrigation district) are not presumed to be notable.
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The nom’s other rationale ( I see only roads and fields), is presumably the result of zooming in on a satellite view and is utter nonsense since Lincoln Township, like any other rural agricultural area with a population of 300, has farmers’ homes accompanying their fields. It’s not hard to see those homes if one cares to acknowledge what’s landing on their retinas ( Google Map view, here). Lincoln Township is a run-of-the-mill township no more deserving of being expunged from Wikipedia than thousands of other townships in the US. Greg L ( talk) 03:58, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Comment - in the USA, many states have townships. In some states such as New Jersey, they have important governmental functions and may employ 100s of police, teachers, etc. In other states such as North Carolina, they are historical vestiges with no modern purpose or structure. — A. B. ( talk • contribs • global count) 14:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Missouri’s townships are civil and have legal standings defined by Missouri law. Moreover, Missouri has 1,378 townships apportioned amongst 114 counties.
Henpecking this article to death in hopes of sliding a Post-It note-sized policy change under the door would run afoul with WP:Consensus/Levels of Consensus, which states Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. A policy change to consolidate townships under their respective counties would require going to Village Pump and proposing such a sweeping idea. By I seriously doubt such a proposal will fly since no one would want to wade through stupendously large county articles; that’s the whole reason we have internal hyperlinks.
Without proper use of hyperlinks to break things up into bite-size portions, which benefits readers and rewards and motivates volunteer wikipedians who generally want to make a small dent in the multiverse, we would end up with “article elephantiasis” like “ List of Fables characters”. With the attention spans of readers now approaching one Planck length, readers are increasingly disinterested in such articles. Greg L ( talk) 00:02, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
बिनोद थारू ( talk) 23:50, 30 December 2023 (UTC)^Missouri - townships (mostly non-governing),
The result was no consensus. leaning Keep. We see articles like this so many times at AFD that I think an RFC might be useful to make these closures more decisive. Right now, I see no consensus. Liz Read! Talk! 04:33, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
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Checking the maps, I see only roads and fields. It seems to be a trivial GNIS entry. I did not initiate PROD because the consensus on having such articles is not clear. बिनोद थारू ( talk) 04:36, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
The genealogical society's transcription of the atlas is not very trustworthy, as the original did not say "paste in here" in the Joplin Lead Mines as that WWW page does. And we really cannot repeat 19th century fawning such as "fine farms" and "thrifty and industrious population" in Wikipedia. Furthermore since that 1876 history with the fawning subtracted amounts to not much has happened yet a history from a lot later than 1876 is clearly needed.
Which there will not be. Missouri had optional township government in 1872, abolished just after that history was published, and then again in 1879 under its new 1875 constitution. Even by 1997 only 23 counties in Missouri had opted for any township government at all, which went down to 22 in 2001, and Jasper has not ever been one of them. For Jasper and the rest, Lincoln is just a survey rectangle.
बिनोद थारू ( talk) 03:25, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Census tracts, Abadi, and other areas not commonly recognized as a place (such as the area in an irrigation district) are not presumed to be notable.
“ | Wikipedia is an encyclopedia Wikipedia combines many features of general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers. |
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The nom’s other rationale ( I see only roads and fields), is presumably the result of zooming in on a satellite view and is utter nonsense since Lincoln Township, like any other rural agricultural area with a population of 300, has farmers’ homes accompanying their fields. It’s not hard to see those homes if one cares to acknowledge what’s landing on their retinas ( Google Map view, here). Lincoln Township is a run-of-the-mill township no more deserving of being expunged from Wikipedia than thousands of other townships in the US. Greg L ( talk) 03:58, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Comment - in the USA, many states have townships. In some states such as New Jersey, they have important governmental functions and may employ 100s of police, teachers, etc. In other states such as North Carolina, they are historical vestiges with no modern purpose or structure. — A. B. ( talk • contribs • global count) 14:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Missouri’s townships are civil and have legal standings defined by Missouri law. Moreover, Missouri has 1,378 townships apportioned amongst 114 counties.
Henpecking this article to death in hopes of sliding a Post-It note-sized policy change under the door would run afoul with WP:Consensus/Levels of Consensus, which states Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. A policy change to consolidate townships under their respective counties would require going to Village Pump and proposing such a sweeping idea. By I seriously doubt such a proposal will fly since no one would want to wade through stupendously large county articles; that’s the whole reason we have internal hyperlinks.
Without proper use of hyperlinks to break things up into bite-size portions, which benefits readers and rewards and motivates volunteer wikipedians who generally want to make a small dent in the multiverse, we would end up with “article elephantiasis” like “ List of Fables characters”. With the attention spans of readers now approaching one Planck length, readers are increasingly disinterested in such articles. Greg L ( talk) 00:02, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
बिनोद थारू ( talk) 23:50, 30 December 2023 (UTC)^Missouri - townships (mostly non-governing),