The result was delete. Consensus is that it does not have the sourcing or recognition required for GEOLAND. Star Mississippi 15:45, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
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So here things get weird. This is another place along the Columbia that got "moved" because the original rail line was inundated by damming, but the searching produced some real surprises. Unfortunately, there are no aerials that show the area before the dam, and there's only a single such topo, which shows a couple of buildings between the rails and the river. The modern "location" is an otherwise anonymous spot on the rails, which are sandwiched between the road and the river on the usual carved-out ledge; there's no siding or anything else, and it's quite clear there was never a "settlement" in the fifty years since. So then we turn to the Ghits. The web hits are down in the bottom-of-the-basement clickbait level, but the book hits are both bizarre and illuminating. First up is a passage from Sinclair Lewis's novel Free Air, where the "town" appears in a list/poem of town names from east Washington state. More potentially useful is a passage from Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, which describes looking for gas while running on empty, but I have say that an anonymous woman hanging out in a gas station does not constitute a reliable source. Last, in the illuminating department, this environmental impact statement from 2002 describes Moonax as "a small community", when at the time it was nothing more than a name on a map and an entry in a database. Finally, we have the name origin story, which is a perfect bit of " just-so" fabricated from Lewis and Clark's journals. The entry in question is definitely Clark's work, and does nothing to pin down a spot to such exactitude. So in all of this the most notability is mention in a couple of books, which isn't enough. Mangoe ( talk) 02:17, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
It is therefore important to clarify that Wikipedia is not a comprehensive gazetteer of all places, but one with defined criteria for inclusion, so notability would still need to be demonstrated. eviolite (talk) 02:01, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
The result was delete. Consensus is that it does not have the sourcing or recognition required for GEOLAND. Star Mississippi 15:45, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
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So here things get weird. This is another place along the Columbia that got "moved" because the original rail line was inundated by damming, but the searching produced some real surprises. Unfortunately, there are no aerials that show the area before the dam, and there's only a single such topo, which shows a couple of buildings between the rails and the river. The modern "location" is an otherwise anonymous spot on the rails, which are sandwiched between the road and the river on the usual carved-out ledge; there's no siding or anything else, and it's quite clear there was never a "settlement" in the fifty years since. So then we turn to the Ghits. The web hits are down in the bottom-of-the-basement clickbait level, but the book hits are both bizarre and illuminating. First up is a passage from Sinclair Lewis's novel Free Air, where the "town" appears in a list/poem of town names from east Washington state. More potentially useful is a passage from Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, which describes looking for gas while running on empty, but I have say that an anonymous woman hanging out in a gas station does not constitute a reliable source. Last, in the illuminating department, this environmental impact statement from 2002 describes Moonax as "a small community", when at the time it was nothing more than a name on a map and an entry in a database. Finally, we have the name origin story, which is a perfect bit of " just-so" fabricated from Lewis and Clark's journals. The entry in question is definitely Clark's work, and does nothing to pin down a spot to such exactitude. So in all of this the most notability is mention in a couple of books, which isn't enough. Mangoe ( talk) 02:17, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
It is therefore important to clarify that Wikipedia is not a comprehensive gazetteer of all places, but one with defined criteria for inclusion, so notability would still need to be demonstrated. eviolite (talk) 02:01, 9 December 2021 (UTC)