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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 06:18, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Locke, Washington[edit]

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Going back through the topos shows that this was a railroad station/post office and not a settlement. It's telling that the Arcadia book on the region has nothing more to show for the name than a couple of fellows from the area. Mangoe (talk) 23:11, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment How would one go about checking if a historic community was ever legally recognized? When did the state of Washington first required cities do file incorporation paper work. If say pre 1931 didn't require filed paper work and the city vote said they we are a town then that poses issues in the !vote because it didn't have to meet those requirements. By this rational here if a google search doesn't produce results clearly saying its a town then its not a town. I'm not saying thats exactly whats the case here but it seems dozens of articles are being purged with very little effort going into improvements into the articles. Why not tag them for improvements and allow the community to attempt to make it better rather than just nominate article after article? There are sources out there that show it had a school and is important enough an historical society meet there at the school.[1]. So now we know it had a school as well as a post office and rail stop. I just submitted a request to the society I linked to for more information as well. So, as all of these article get purged for not being incorporated currently and not having sources you can google in two seconds, remember there was no internet on most of America just 20 years ago and one must perhaps look deeper than google.

Super (talk) 16:18, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - Super - If this was ever legally recognised then this could be shown by e.g., an act of incorporation. This would have to be filed with the county in which the city/town being incorporated was located (see here at p.29). There is no evidence of this, nor the multiple instances of significant coverage in reliable sources needed to pass WP:GNG. Instead we have GNIS (unreliable), a bare mention in a newspaper story, and evidence that there was a post office (not necessarily a community) at the site for some years. There's just no "there" there. FOARP (talk) 17:55, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • That link was to a different state. Also, there were not laws regarding what is called self forming pre-1960's a lot of places. So there is no way this town could legally been officially incorporated by the guidelines here that are often used. So this would result in many many cities that formally exaisted not meeting the incorporated standards. Also I linked to proof it had a town school . Incorporation is a modern standard that many of these old towns can never met even if they were in fact towns because all they had to do was say they were a town.Super (talk) 05:38, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It’s a summary of city/town incorporation procedures for ALL US states (see p.29 which covers Washington state). That it’s hosted on the website of the Georgia state government is immaterial - it tells us that incorporation in Washington state would have to be recorded. A check on the city/town records of existing cities in Washington state that were founded in the 19th century (eg Walla Walla) shows they filed articles of incorporation too. No documentation, or evidence for it in another source, means no proof of legal recognition. Just having a school proves nothing about legal recognition - schools could be located anywhere. FOARP (talk) 07:33, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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