Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elk, Kansas

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The result was keep. Withdrawn by nominator DGG (talk) 03:55, 26 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Elk, Kansas

Supposed ghost town in Kansas, but can't find any sources for its existence. The GNIS reveals nothing, even though it records long-gone ghost towns. Google produces plenty of results, but virtually all are for Elk County or Elk City, or the standard "Divorce lawyers in Elk, Kansas" etc.; nothing substantive is there. Nyttend (talk) 21:50, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. There was no evidence outside of what Nyttend mention about divorce lawyers in Elk, Kansas.RFD (talk) 21:58, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay I did come across this reference:[1]There is a possibility some sort of settlement existed.Thanks-RFD (talk) 22:05, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak Keep or Redirect~~ Keep, I like this place I hate to say this because my personal view would be to put this back in to Marion_County,_Kansas#Ghost_towns and delete the pointless article as not notable but the place existed alright, founded by the great grandaddy of Councilman Stacey Collett [2]. Polargeo (talk) 22:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here it is on a 1921 map: [3] --NE2 23:27, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect (without prejudice) to Marion_County,_Kansas#Ghost_towns. At present the only verifiable things we can say about it are 1. that it existed, 2. it was shown on a map in 1921 3, Councilman Stacey Collett's great-grandfather helped found it, and 4. it doesn't exist now. I don't think that point three is even encyclopaedic. Unless sufficient else encyclopaedic can be verifiable said that it would outgrow the target article, we might as well just redirect. Thryduulf (talk) 00:06, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - some sources can be found here and here. Sebwite (talk) 00:38, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as above. Niteshift36 (talk) 03:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kansas-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:31, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep If people lived in a town or village, it does not matter when, it's notable. DGG (talk) 05:19, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw, this nomination was made because I doubted the existence of such a community. Nyttend (talk) 13:31, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- You can withdraw the nomination yourself if you nominated it. Just say at the top "the result was Withdrawn by nominator (non-admin close). Sebwite (talk) 14:54, 25 June 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.