Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clanricarde, Indiana

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The result was merge to List of communities in Porter County, Indiana. I'm closing this as a Merge but there might not be much content to bring over to the target article. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:03, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Clanricarde, Indiana

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I can find no evidence of this as other than a rail spot. Other than passing references to same, gazetteer stuff, and clickbait, I did find a couple of photos, one of which was not illuminating, but the other, from 1956, shows roughly the same buildings as are currently present; the only changes are that the smaller elevator building is gone, there's large barn/warehouse thing attached to the small building at the far right of the picture, and everything looks a lot more worn. Oh, and the tracks are gone, but the GMaps aerial still shows where they ran. It was a place to put your grain on a train, not a town. Mangoe (talk) 04:40, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 04:50, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Lost communities of Porter County, Indiana, where it is mentioned, but would benfit form coordinates and references. Djflem (talk) 15:39, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked at that article and am frankly inclined to nominate it for deletion, but be that as it may, to be included there this would need to be a settlement, lack of evidence for which is what got me going on this in the first place. Mangoe (talk) 03:33, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That article is certainly a viable topic and one that is worth expansion which of course would involve serious research (instead of knee-jerk deletionism) and a commitment to recording the fading history of rural America and the understanding of what settlement/community means/meant, something within the purview of Wikipedia's purpose. Djflem (talk) 12:14, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I shan't be discussing that article further at this point other than to remark that the title of it at least is far from encyclopedic. The issue here is that I do not think this was a town, and I want to see some evidence that it was a town. Merging it into another article isn't going to remedy that. Mangoe (talk) 04:09, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge While this Porter County list is not typical, it may be reasonable way to include former populated places that do not warrant their own articles. Reywas92^Talk 14:30, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redierect to Lost communities of Porter County, Indiana where it's already listed. There's nothing noteworthy in the standalone article to copy over, however the list entry probably needs verification as it has more information than one would expect to find in the cited atlas. –dlthewave ☎ 03:19, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: There is no article at Lost communities of Porter County, Indiana, that page is a redirect. Do you have another target page in mind?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:49, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Renamed: List of communities in Porter County, Indiana. Djflem (talk) 17:33, 14 September 2022 (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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.