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Categorized as a "town" in New South Wales, but is very clearly not a whole town. The
Australian Place Names gazetteer shows it as a locality, and this
Australian tourism site mentions it as a crossroads, this
book from 1889 calls it a "pastoral holding". There's a bunch of GBooks results where it appears in name only, basically listed as a placename with no elaboration. I think it's fairly clear that it doesn't meet
WP:GEOLAND as either a legally recognized entity, or a notable non-recognized populated place. ♠
PMC♠
(talk)06:04, 21 June 2020 (UTC)reply
leaning keep This is a former town which for some reason the Australian census is keeping on the books. The census data actually covers a considerable area in which the point marked as Millie sits at one edge; three families totalling twenty-eight people is a group of farms, not a town, which is exactly what GMaps shows. The only decent historical evidence is
the war memorial registry entry, which links to some articles from the 1900-1901 era which describe the erection of the memorial in terms which make clear that there used to be a town there, but there certainly is not one now. I'm having some trouble with the exact location of the memorial, as different sites give different coordinates, and the aerials aren't high enough resolution to locate it. My qualms about keeping this stem from the necessary synthesis in putting this all together: the census doesn't say explicitly what the area of Millie is supposed to be, and one can only tell the town is not there by looking. But 28 people is certainly not the population of a town named Millie, and besides the memorial, that's about all there is to work with.
Mangoe (
talk)
15:09, 22 June 2020 (UTC)reply
The census data is for exactly the same areas as shown on its map. Census data is now shown for state defined localities.--
Grahame (
talk)
04:19, 23 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep: Defined locality. I can see old newspaper articles about it too.
[1] ("We will now proceed to Millie, which consists of an hotel, and post and telegraph office, and a police station about three miles away...." and goes on to discuss all the local residents of the area in 1897); there are many newspaper mentions, e.g.,:
[2][3][4]. It is hard to say Millie was ever a "town", but it was definitely a community name applied to the residents of its immediate area.--Milowent • hasspoken11:56, 23 June 2020 (UTC)reply
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talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Categorized as a "town" in New South Wales, but is very clearly not a whole town. The
Australian Place Names gazetteer shows it as a locality, and this
Australian tourism site mentions it as a crossroads, this
book from 1889 calls it a "pastoral holding". There's a bunch of GBooks results where it appears in name only, basically listed as a placename with no elaboration. I think it's fairly clear that it doesn't meet
WP:GEOLAND as either a legally recognized entity, or a notable non-recognized populated place. ♠
PMC♠
(talk)06:04, 21 June 2020 (UTC)reply
leaning keep This is a former town which for some reason the Australian census is keeping on the books. The census data actually covers a considerable area in which the point marked as Millie sits at one edge; three families totalling twenty-eight people is a group of farms, not a town, which is exactly what GMaps shows. The only decent historical evidence is
the war memorial registry entry, which links to some articles from the 1900-1901 era which describe the erection of the memorial in terms which make clear that there used to be a town there, but there certainly is not one now. I'm having some trouble with the exact location of the memorial, as different sites give different coordinates, and the aerials aren't high enough resolution to locate it. My qualms about keeping this stem from the necessary synthesis in putting this all together: the census doesn't say explicitly what the area of Millie is supposed to be, and one can only tell the town is not there by looking. But 28 people is certainly not the population of a town named Millie, and besides the memorial, that's about all there is to work with.
Mangoe (
talk)
15:09, 22 June 2020 (UTC)reply
The census data is for exactly the same areas as shown on its map. Census data is now shown for state defined localities.--
Grahame (
talk)
04:19, 23 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep: Defined locality. I can see old newspaper articles about it too.
[1] ("We will now proceed to Millie, which consists of an hotel, and post and telegraph office, and a police station about three miles away...." and goes on to discuss all the local residents of the area in 1897); there are many newspaper mentions, e.g.,:
[2][3][4]. It is hard to say Millie was ever a "town", but it was definitely a community name applied to the residents of its immediate area.--Milowent • hasspoken11:56, 23 June 2020 (UTC)reply
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