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Topos show a small cluster of buildings which resolve out on GMaps to a farmstead with outbuildings. I get lots of hits on people named Shumway but nothing significant on this place.
Mangoe (
talk)
19:13, 5 August 2020 (UTC)reply
No, it does not. Prior to RFD, in rural areas one had to go to the post office to get one's mail, so there were post offices spread pretty thickly over the land in any place that could accommodate them, including people's houses. They had to have a name because that's how the system worked before zip codes, but it didn't mean the place was anything like a town. Isoalted railroad stations, for example, were routine.
Mangoe (
talk)
18:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)reply
I have a different opinion about what "
legally recognized" means, but it seems like I've not been very successful about convincing others of my view, so I'm changing this to a Weak Keep so as to not block consensus.
Cxbrx (
talk)
13:51, 16 August 2020 (UTC)reply
DeleteWP:GEOLAND only gives near-automatic notability to legally recognised populated places, I don't agree that having a post office necessarily means a place is legally recognised. I am rather astonished at the lengths people will go to in order to keep articles about populated places, with any other topic the type of references linked above would be wholly inadequate to write an article without heading into
original research. Hut 8.510:46, 9 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete Yet another erroneous GNIS designation. Post offices are not indicators of passing
WP:GEOLAND because they are not legal recognition and in the context of a RR station a post office may be tied only to postal rail functions and not to a populated place.
Eggishorn(talk)(contrib)22:03, 13 August 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Topos show a small cluster of buildings which resolve out on GMaps to a farmstead with outbuildings. I get lots of hits on people named Shumway but nothing significant on this place.
Mangoe (
talk)
19:13, 5 August 2020 (UTC)reply
No, it does not. Prior to RFD, in rural areas one had to go to the post office to get one's mail, so there were post offices spread pretty thickly over the land in any place that could accommodate them, including people's houses. They had to have a name because that's how the system worked before zip codes, but it didn't mean the place was anything like a town. Isoalted railroad stations, for example, were routine.
Mangoe (
talk)
18:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)reply
I have a different opinion about what "
legally recognized" means, but it seems like I've not been very successful about convincing others of my view, so I'm changing this to a Weak Keep so as to not block consensus.
Cxbrx (
talk)
13:51, 16 August 2020 (UTC)reply
DeleteWP:GEOLAND only gives near-automatic notability to legally recognised populated places, I don't agree that having a post office necessarily means a place is legally recognised. I am rather astonished at the lengths people will go to in order to keep articles about populated places, with any other topic the type of references linked above would be wholly inadequate to write an article without heading into
original research. Hut 8.510:46, 9 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete Yet another erroneous GNIS designation. Post offices are not indicators of passing
WP:GEOLAND because they are not legal recognition and in the context of a RR station a post office may be tied only to postal rail functions and not to a populated place.
Eggishorn(talk)(contrib)22:03, 13 August 2020 (UTC)reply
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