Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Limerick, Illinois
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The result was keep. ✗plicit 23:43, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
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Survey says that this was a 4th class post office on the same farm that's still there. The placename origins book calls it a village but I don't give that a lot of weight. Mangoe (talk) 16:36, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Illinois. Shellwood (talk) 17:12, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep - I expanded the article. This was a populated place, and is recognized as an unincorporated area by the county. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:46, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep - As previously pointed out, it is an unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois. Lindsey40186 (talk) 19:26, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- No, it's definitely not an "unincorporated community" unless the latter is a euphemism for "two farms whose buildings are on opposite sides of the road." As for the county's "unincorporated areas", upon rereading the county website I don't see it as claiming that the places named are settlements or even "areas", which is to say, there's no indication that each name is a formally recognized unit unto itself. The whole section is a verbose, bureaucratic, overly spelled-out way of saying what the first sentence already says: that if you aren't in a municipality which has its own zoning, you have to go through the county for building permits. I've already looked at a bunch of the place names listed, and while a few of them are indeed obvious small towns, plenty of them obviously aren't. It's clear in context that "unincorporated areas" means "all of the county which isn't in an incorporated municipality". Mangoe (talk) 21:33, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Um...sure...the county website must be wrong to call Limirick an unincorporated community. Any issue with this settlement having a meeting house, post office, store, blacksmith, physician, Methodist church, and about 15 to 20 dwellings? Magnolia677 (talk) 23:24, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- The county website does not call this an "unincorporated community". It doesn't way anything about what it is at all, except to state that it's in the unincorporated part of the county.
- Um...sure...the county website must be wrong to call Limirick an unincorporated community. Any issue with this settlement having a meeting house, post office, store, blacksmith, physician, Methodist church, and about 15 to 20 dwellings? Magnolia677 (talk) 23:24, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- No, it's definitely not an "unincorporated community" unless the latter is a euphemism for "two farms whose buildings are on opposite sides of the road." As for the county's "unincorporated areas", upon rereading the county website I don't see it as claiming that the places named are settlements or even "areas", which is to say, there's no indication that each name is a formally recognized unit unto itself. The whole section is a verbose, bureaucratic, overly spelled-out way of saying what the first sentence already says: that if you aren't in a municipality which has its own zoning, you have to go through the county for building permits. I've already looked at a bunch of the place names listed, and while a few of them are indeed obvious small towns, plenty of them obviously aren't. It's clear in context that "unincorporated areas" means "all of the county which isn't in an incorporated municipality". Mangoe (talk) 21:33, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- I'm willing to go with "former town", since there isn't a town there now. Mangoe (talk) 02:34, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
- Weak keep appears to have some coverage and a number of houses but no census data. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:27, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
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