Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Slough (Kingsbury County, South Dakota)

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 merge‎ to Silver Lake (Kingsbury County, South Dakota). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Big Slough (Kingsbury County, South Dakota)[edit]

[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

This should meet WP:GEOLAND, but I couldn't establish that it does, or WP:GNG. Boleyn (talk) 21:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Silver Lake (Kingsbury County, South Dakota). Both are notable because they feature prominently in the enormously popular Little House on the Prairie books, and a quick google search turns up numerous proposals by local governments to further develop them as tourist attractions on that basis, which I will add to the article.
Silver Lake and Big Slough are hydrologically connected (an article in the Brookings Register even refers to Big Slough as "the upper part of Silver Lake." No cultural or geographical reason to have them in two separate articles IMO, but it shouldn't be completely deleted either. Jbt89 (talk) 21:44, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and South Dakota. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 23:22, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Jbt89. The articles in the article demonstrate notability for Silver Lake, but not necessarily enough for a stand-alone article for Big Slough yet. SportingFlyer T·C 23:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as per Jbt89 would indeed be the best choice, since Silver Lake is notable enough.TH1980 (talk) 02:26, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Geographically, I suspect from the poor sources that I've encountered (non-experts quoting an unidentified third party) that it's the other way around: the lake is just how far the slough happens to be filled up at the time. I've looked for documentation on the Madison Wetland Management District and the more local Waterfowl Production Area, and I've yet to find anything concrete about the hydrology of the slough at all, or the lake for that matter.
This robotic import of geographic data is ludicrous sometimes, by the way. The coördinates for Silver Lake (Kingsbury County, South Dakota) robotically added in Special:Diff/501168550 are in the middle of De Smet and not of the lake at all.
Uncle G (talk) 02:38, 14 January 2024 (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.