Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suman, Indiana
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The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 07:28, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
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This is another searching nightmare due to a variety of Civil War references (particularly an officer in the Chickamauga campaign) but searching on "Sumanville" eventually came up with this short bit on the "town" which describes it as a "small station" on the B&O and remarks upon several failures to establish a store there. I found another reference to it as a station on the predecessor Ohio & Mississippi. It is still a point of the CSX mainline, but I find no real evidence of this as an actual town. Mangoe (talk) 04:28, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 08:10, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
- Comment Certainly referred to as a village or town such as in an 1896 history of the Civil War campaign, Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 and other inline references in article. Djflem (talk) 11:46, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
- Keep, while considered a Lost communities of Porter County, Indiana, notability is not temporary and this passes GNG. Djflem (talk) 15:44, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 06:42, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
- Keep - Found this historical retrospective on the village: "Hero's Home". The Vidette-Messenger (Memoirs/Special Anniversary ed.). March 26, 1991. p. 7. (this whole newspaper edition is devoted to the history of communities in Porter County). Combined with the other sources, I think this community satisfied NGEO. -Indy beetle (talk) 06:09, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
- Keep. Appears to satisfy WP:GEOLAND. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:14, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
Disagree - Keep, it is notable enough. Muhafiz-e-Pakistan (talk) 13:32, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
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