Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Summit, Tippecanoe County, Indiana

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The result was delete‎. Star Mississippi 13:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Summit, Tippecanoe County, Indiana[edit]

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Notability not established with substantive sources. I am utterly baffled why my redirect was reverted calling this a "valid village" when this is within incorporated West Lafayette (with coordinates at the airport), not an unincorporated community. Reverter failed to add sources beyond WP:GNIS, which cites an unspecified state DOT map – this does not appear on topo maps! Reywas92^Talk 14:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Indiana. Reywas92^Talk 14:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It was restored because it has a history as an independent community. I doubt it was always within West Lafayette. Have you checked "all" topo maps? Vsmith (talk) 14:41, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Source????? Yet you reverted it to this false "is an unincorporated community" with no evidence of this "history". While only the topos at https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#13/40.4168/-86.9292 from 2010 and 2013 have a label, that was copied in turn from GNIS (lots of circular junk in some recent ones) and the 2016 update removed it – which did you check that show a community??? Even if it were a neighborhood later incorporated into the city at some point, that doesn't mean it's notable or needs a standalone article. Reywas92^Talk 16:12, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
delete I have no idea where the Indiana DoT got the name "Summit" from, but in any case its appearance on the topos is brief and appears to have been copied in from GNIS and then deleted again. The actual spot is one end of what used to be a small rail yard that seems to have supported the gravel pit or whatever it was to the southeast; otherwise what we have there is the airport and an area of the Purdue campus which seems to have been quite recently cleared of what appear to have been "temporary" residence halls or the like (the road names suggest they were thrown up right after WW II). There's absolutely no reason to think there was anything town-ish here without some supporting text reference. Mangoe (talk) 17:52, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- The history books tell us that there was flight training at the university airport during the war. Our article touches upon it. Uncle G (talk) 19:28, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the map pin that is on a building of Purdue Airport and saying "valid village" is bonkers behaviour. The even madder thing is that the GNIS has claimed since the 1980s that there is a "ppl" here, somehow mysteriously in what was empty fields in 1930 and an airport from 1934 onwards, according to the several history books of the airport and the university.
If there had been a village named "Summit" in the middle of the airport hangars, people, Amelia Earhart would have noticed it. Dave Ross bought empty fields, farmland. It's even in a couple of the airport histories that the landing field was accidentally planted with crops one summer. There was no village.
This is the most utter prima facie falsehood nonsense from the GNIS mess that I have seen, I think.
Uncle G (talk) 19:28, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I came up even drier than everyone else, google, google books all, Newspapers.com this was hard too, because the word is common. Sweep this crap out of here now.James.folsom (talk) 23:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Vsmith's latest crusade is updating all the "old" GNIS ids with a newer one, I don't understand the details. But, looking at the history of the article, he reverted it for the ~~sole~~ purpose of updating the coords and the GNIS id. ~~So his assertion that it's a valid community is based on GNIS entirely, he's just a competitionist obsessed with GNIS.~~ Somebody might want to warn him.James.folsom (talk) 23:50, 4 January 2024 (UTC) Apologies to Vsmith, I'm trying to learn to do better.James.folsom (talk) 20:20, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I was thinking about what I learned going through the 19th century papers. There were two general uses of Summit in common use to refer to a place. One was the The Summit of Indiana which is where the divide that causes water to flow either into the gulf of mexico or the great lakes lies. It is not near this summit. The other usage is to describe a place where flooding would not occur. Looking at the TOPO; I believe the location of this Summit is that. It's perched on a cliff over the river, so it's not a suitable place to settle because there is no water access for trade. That river I gather, flooded a lot before flood control was implemented. So I think, Summit is where everyone went with their things until the water went down. It's a large flat area above the city that is easily accessible.James.folsom (talk) 21:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Thanks to James.folsom for doing a thorough search and finding a plausible origin for this place name. There are no sources supporting that this was ever a village or community of any kind, and it certainly is not one now. Eluchil404 (talk) 03:59, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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