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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mount Pisgah, Indiana

: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.

The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 02:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

=[[:Mount Pisgah, Indiana]]=

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There's nothing there, and sources consistently characterize this as a post office. Mangoe (talk) 02:23, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

:Keep However it is not clear to me if this is legally recognized according to WP:GEOLAND which is what my argument is based on. Czarking0 (talk) 03:45, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

::Please go read WP:GNIS. We have not taken listing in these official gazetteers as legal recognition for a long time, and in any case, GNIS in particular has proven to be fairly error-prone. Mangoe (talk) 10:25, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

::The story is at least untrue to the extent that this Mt. Pisgah is nowhere near the military base; it's over 150 miles away in a different corner of the state. Mangoe (talk) 02:20, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

  • Delete. No evidence that this ever was a community in the sense required by GEOLAND. Eluchil404 (talk) 22:30, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment There was more than a post office at Mt. Pisgah. According to Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, April 9, 1921 Page 6 there was a general mercantile store there that sold coffee for the desperate. It is mentioned as a "place" in Hoosier Folklore Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jun., 1943), pp. 14-16. ([https://www.jstor.org/stable/27655448]). So there's a hint that there's more than a post office, but evidence is shy that it was a community. Maddening. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 02:07, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

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Relisting comment: Relisting. The comment I'm left with as a closer is "So there's a hint that there's more than a post office, but evidence is shy that it was a community"...so where does that leave us as a consensus of editors?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 04:49, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

::The issue with this one, as is usually the case, is that the township article either doesn't mention the place or more typically claims it is an "unincorporated community", i.e., a settlement, when the whole rationale for the deletion discussion is that it is no such thing. If we were going to apply GNG to these, then yes, I would say roll them up into the parent township; but as it stands, these redirects are just an invitation to a subsequent RfD to get rid of them. Mangoe (talk) 01:41, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

:Delete - only a post office. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 16:06, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

:Delete. We don't have clear evidence that this meets GEOLAND and a lot of evidence that it is merely a post office. JoelleJay (talk) 16:31, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

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: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.