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Locke, Washington

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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]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 23:53, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 23:53, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - If this was indeed a community, it was neither legally recognized nor significantly covered. –dlthewave ☎ 05:06, 7 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]