Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dennison, Kansas

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The result was delete‎. ^Complex/_Rational 17:53, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dennison, Kansas[edit]

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Yet another Franklin County, Kansas post office, with more of the story in the article. What you see is there is the classic pattern of a 4th class post office being renamed as it jumped from building to building, the final one being, apparently, the Baptist church which appears as far back as the topos and aerials go. Again, it's been dropped from GNIS, and it ought to be dropped from WP. Mangoe (talk) 17:30, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Kansas. Skynxnex (talk) 17:58, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I have found no mention of Dennison in neither the 1890, 1900, 1920, 1940, nor the 1960 census records. There's a one-N Denison, Kansas, but that's in a different county. Similarly, Woodlief was considered a station. History books of the time confirm that Woodlief was considered a post office and station; the post office was on the Woodlief farm. The Woodlief station was later renamed Tauy Station. The Tauy Baptist Church was near Tauy Creek; the church had a "Tauy Ladies' Missionary Circle" group. Tauy is in several sources named a "vicinity", but I found no mention of a hamlet, village, or town under any of the three names. Cram (1902) lists Woodlief on page 230, but with the population listed as "X", indicating a rail or postal site only.Firsfron of Ronchester 20:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There are only a handful of mentions for these places in the local paper (ottawa herald), and as we learned from Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Coburn,_Kansas these post offices are not necessarily sited in official places. THey were put where they were needed. It even seems a person who runs a big business of some kind may get their own post office.James.folsom (talk) 22:27, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: In a previous discussion in which I improperly nominated the article for deletion, Uncle G claimed this is a "largely undocumented claimed rural post office. Zero sources found indicating any sort of population centre. The Woodlief post office synthesis is not supported by the source in the article, and I've found no connection to the probably notable William H. Woodlief whom I found biographies of in two history books from two different centuries." Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 01:41, 4 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.