Talk:Upper Falls, West Virginia

What additional information would be useful to add to this article? Thpn 14:46, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Tornado has been Demoted from a CDP to a Populated Place
The Tornado, West Virginia census designated place (CDP) has been subsumed by the new Upper Falls, West Virginia CDP, which was created by the United States Census Bureau for the 2010 Census. In 2011 January, when the Census results are published and the resulting Upper Falls article is created, I intend to move the content relating to Upper Falls from here to that new article. At that time, this article will need to be changed to reflect the demotion of Tornado from the status of a CDP to one of a populated place. Thpn (talk) 23:09, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

The Tornado, West Virginia Populated Place Has Been Eliminated
The Tornado, West Virginia populated place has been eliminated from the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System database. Furthermore, the former Tornado, West Virginia census designated place has been marked as "historical." As a result, "Tornado, West Virginia" no longer officially exists. Therefore, I am updating this article to reflect this new status and renaming it "Tornado Post Office." Thpn (talk) 16:32, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
 * There's a difference between the CDP and the populated place: the only way that it can have ceased to exist is if all the people moved away, and even then it would be a ghost town. Nyttend (talk) 04:12, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * You should do your homework before making edits, especially when you're wrong. In addition, your condescending attitude is extremely unattractive.  Yes, a populated place can cease to exist, when the United States Board on Geographic Names, the United States Census Bureau and the United States Geological Survey mandate it.  Tornado no longer exists, by the authority of every agency of the United States Government with jurisdiction in the matter.  But you know more than all the GIS professionals in the United States government combined, right?  Did you even bother to click on the old link to the USGS page for Tornado?  If you had, you'd have seen that it has been removed.  Did you bother to do a search for Tornado in West Virginia on the GNIS website?  If you had, you would not have found a record for Tornado, West Virginia.  Officially, the U.S. Geological Survey says that the inclusion of the Tornado populated place in their records was "an error of compilation during Phase II data collection for West Virginia and should have been entered as a variant of Upper Falls at the time."  If you wanted to restore the article for historical purposes, you could have left the Tornado Post Office article alone and created a new article for "Tornado CDP, West Virginia (historical)."  But clicking "undo" is so much easier, isn't it?  Thpn (talk) 21:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)