The result was delete. Despite the long discussion it seems that nobody is actively in favor of keeping this. Sandstein 14:13, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
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Complete failure of WP:V. Not mentioned in the GNIS under any name. The archived source, [1], states that it bottoms out in "Judah Creek", which also doesn't exist on GNIS. Checking GNIS topo maps in the townships named in that source shows two streams with completely different names. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 01:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
The reason that you won't find it in the GNIS now, as opposed to even a few years ago, is that now the WWW site only uses the non-historic topical subset. Ramsay stuff went in in GNIS phase 2, and sometimes went in as "(historic)".
Ramsay and the theses deal with toponymy. Whether the named something has substantial historical documentation is a rather different matter, and especially difficult to determine if the name is a "(historic)" one. Judah Creek is a branch of Allen Creek which is a branch of Elk Fork Salt River, the latter two of which are names that you will find on federal maps. Allen Creek is now known as either Reese Fork Allen Creek or plain Reese Fork. But which exact tributary is "Judah Creek", let alone which tributary of that is "Wild Cat Creek", is unclear, especially as my go-to source of information on "(historic)" records on the WWW has decided to let its SSL certificate expire two days ago.
Uncle G ( talk) 04:35, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
The result was delete. Despite the long discussion it seems that nobody is actively in favor of keeping this. Sandstein 14:13, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
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Complete failure of WP:V. Not mentioned in the GNIS under any name. The archived source, [1], states that it bottoms out in "Judah Creek", which also doesn't exist on GNIS. Checking GNIS topo maps in the townships named in that source shows two streams with completely different names. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 01:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
The reason that you won't find it in the GNIS now, as opposed to even a few years ago, is that now the WWW site only uses the non-historic topical subset. Ramsay stuff went in in GNIS phase 2, and sometimes went in as "(historic)".
Ramsay and the theses deal with toponymy. Whether the named something has substantial historical documentation is a rather different matter, and especially difficult to determine if the name is a "(historic)" one. Judah Creek is a branch of Allen Creek which is a branch of Elk Fork Salt River, the latter two of which are names that you will find on federal maps. Allen Creek is now known as either Reese Fork Allen Creek or plain Reese Fork. But which exact tributary is "Judah Creek", let alone which tributary of that is "Wild Cat Creek", is unclear, especially as my go-to source of information on "(historic)" records on the WWW has decided to let its SSL certificate expire two days ago.
Uncle G ( talk) 04:35, 15 March 2022 (UTC)