Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sioux Falls, Iowa

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 Speedy delete. Non-admin closure. Hnsampat (talk) 18:33, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sioux Falls, Iowa[edit]

Please bear with my perhaps long explanation: I hope it's not confusing. In short: a stub article about a nonexistent place. To be sure, it has multiple references, but (first off) it does not appear in Google Maps, and searching the GNIS reveals a "No Data Found" message. Ultimately, the sources for its existence are in error one way or another. The article was created because it is listed as the location for the Blood Run Site, a National Historic Landmark: look here to see it listed as "Sioux Falls". This server, and the National Park Service database behind it, can sometimes make errors of this sort — for example, the Site No. JF00-062 in Doniphan County, Kansas is accidentally listed as being in "Rulo, Kansas" on this page [the community in which it lies is always the word after the last comma, so the database produces results that say that it's in Rulo, Kansas], due to the site being so close to Rulo, Nebraska. As far as sources on the article: this speaks of a tight curfew in the community, but unless it's a municipality, it can't have a police force, and I can't imagine the GNIS or this Census Bureau map missing a municipality altogether. Moreover, this reference places the Five Ridge Prairie in Sioux Falls, but this article shows that the Five Ridge Prairie is located in Plymouth County, Iowa, which lies well south of Lyon County, Iowa, the alleged location of Sioux Falls, Iowa. This is inconsistent with this, the article's last reference, which places another site near Sioux Falls, Iowa but in Lyon County — and these are from the same webpage. Overall, it appears that this is a confusion for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which is very close to to Lyon County, Iowa — created in good faith, not as a hoax, but clearly a mistake. Nyttend (talk) 04:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, mea culpa, I created the article upon being misinformed by the apparent mistake in the National Register Information System. I agree this should be deleted. doncram (talk) 04:27, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The "National Register Information System", by the way, is the National Park Service database of which I was speaking. Nyttend (talk) 04:46, 13 February 2009 (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.