User:Closeapple/issues/User:Bnnnperdue

has created a series of hoaxes about populated places, creating imaginary histories and fake locator maps about various places, including existing neighborhoods and non-notable small populated place names. The hoaxes often claim that places were, or have recently become, incorporated or census-designated places, to trick people into thinking that the article will meet WP:GNG imminently despite a lack of sources, and to give the impression that the USGS GNIS entry for the place is more significant than just WP:ITEXISTS.

The same user also inserted claimed connections to (possibly random) places into other articles. This page attempts to gather up all the garbage so it can be removed.

Created by Bnnnperdue
Most of these are up for deletion to determine whether they meet WP:GNG/WP:GEOLAND somehow, rather than just WP:ITEXISTS.

Open without comment by Closeapple yet

 * Conlen, Texas &mdash; might be partially correct; but it needs every fact, incuding GNIS ID, coordinates, and population verified: How can it have a known population count unless it's not a CDP? Also needs to be checked for notability.

Commented by Closeapple

 * Innisbrook, Florida (Articles for deletion/Innisbrook, Florida) &mdash; Now reduced to a sub-stub.
 * Mammoth Springs, Illinois (Articles for deletion/Mammoth Springs, Illinois) &mdash; appears to be more of a spring than a settlement; rewritten but probably should be merged
 * Nettle Creek, Illinois (Articles for deletion/Nettle Creek, Illinois) &mdash; Was copy-paste from Mazon, Illinois (WP:COPYVIO?); other users have done good-faith overhauls, but it now seems to conflate this spot with the broader Nettle Creek Township, Grundy County, Illinois.

Modified by Bnnnperdue
These need to be checked over to make sure they don't have hoax/unverified material in them.


 * Lake Nacimiento, California &mdash; added nickname "Hot Lake"
 * Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California &mdash; Amorphous claim that "Toluca Lake functions as a separate entity, with it's own post office, ZIP code, and downtown area."
 * Mims, Florida &mdash; possibly fake ZIP Code claims
 * Clearing, Chicago, Illinois &mdash; Claimed to have, by its own "community board", voted itself out of Chicago, then granted village status by county. Both of those aren't how Illinois law does them.  Reverted to pre-Bnnnperdue version.  Still needs a source or removal of a claim that Clearing was an incorporated town between 1912 and 1915.
 * Naperville, Illinois &mdash; File:LocationOfNaperville.png inserted and other map method removed. Needs to determine whether it strictly matches Naperville's border, and remove otherwise; or just remove based on WP:PROVEIT.
 * Rosslyn, Virginia &mdash; Moved from Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia "Because Rosslyn is an unincorporated community, separate from Arlington." Need to determine whether that's accurate and what the consensus is for Virginia.

Deleted

 * Bertha, Florida (Articles for deletion/Bertha, Florida)
 * Belmont, Illinois &mdash; Made-up information. May have been used for a settlement around the area of a train station.  Deleted per Articles for deletion/Belmont, Illinois.
 * Danada, Illinois &mdash; Hoax history, implied to be still active inside forest preserve. Deleted per Articles for deletion/Danada, Illinois.
 * North Glen Ellyn, Illinois &mdash; Claimed to be a newly-incorporated place; it's not. Invented map.  Deleted per Articles for deletion/North Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
 * South Elmhurst, Illinois (Articles for deletion/South Elmhurst, Illinois) &mdash; Was fantasy, possibly copy-pasted; South Elmhurst seems to be just be a directional region of Elmhurst, Illinois.
 * Mississippi Falls, Wisconsin &mdash; No evidence of existence. PRODded.

Reverted

 * Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club, Florida &mdash; Claimed to be in user-created hoax Innisbrook, Florida. It's not: It's in Palm Harbor, Florida. Reverted to non-Bnnnperdue version.
 * Weston, Illinois &mdash; Claimed to be revived as a CDP; it's not. Invented map.  Reverted to non-Bnnnperdue version.  (Could use some footnotes.)
 * Kingwood, Houston, Texas &mdash; Claimed to be a separate CDP. Reverted to pre-Bnnnperdue version.

Rewritten and verified

 * Fullersburg, Illinois (Articles for deletion/Fullersburg, Illinois) &mdash; actually seems to have enough significance to meet WP:GNG; rewritten by User:Closeapple

Files
Out of WP:SCOPE and possible WP:COPYVIO: Part of a series of fantasy/hoax information created by which was both false information and sometimes based on other people's work without source or acknowledgement &mdash; see User talk:Bnnnperdue for more of this sort of thing:

To delete

 * File:BerthaFlorida.png (Files for discussion/2016 July 17) &mdash; unsourced map with misleading implication that Bertha, Florida has a specific border despite not being incorporated or a CDP
 * File:DuPage County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas North Glen Ellyn highlighted.png ((Files for discussion/2016 July 17) &mdash; used for North Glen Ellyn, Illinois hoax; no evidence of this really being referred to as North Glen Ellyn
 * File:WIMap-doton-Mississippi-Falls.png (Files for discussion/2016 July 17) &mdash; used for Mississippi Falls, Wisconsin hoax

To investigate

 * File:Nancy Pfister.png &mdash; claims to be Nancy Pfister sourced from a CBS webpage; need to verify

Deleted

 * File:BigTexConlen.jpg &mdash; deleted as potential WP:COPYVIO
 * File:Cook County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas Clearing highlighted.png (Files for discussion/2016 July 4) &mdash; used for hoax that Clearing, Illinois had seceded from Chicago
 * File:DanadaCDPmap.jpg (Files for discussion/2016 July 4) &mdash; used for Danada, Illinois hoax
 * File:DuPage County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas North Glen Ellyn higlighted.png &mdash; misspelled version of hoax File:DuPage County Illinois incorporated and unincorporated areas North Glen Ellyn highlighted.png
 * File:HageHoldermanCemetary.jpg &mdash; claimed to be a photo of "The Hage-Holderman Cemetery in Nettle Creek". Used in Nettle Creek, Illinois hoax.  The name everyone else uses seems to be "Holderman and Hoge Cemetery" or "Hoge/Holderman Cemetery" in Nettle Creek Township, Grundy County, Illinois, but it's 7 miles SE.  Deleted as WP:COPYVIO of.
 * File:LocationOfNaperville.png (Files for discussion/2016 July 4) &mdash; Created by Bnnnperdue and inserted into Naperville, Illinois without references, at same time as Illinois map was removed. Unreliable considering other hoaxes; should be deleted unless proper border match can be proven.
 * File:WestonIllinois.jpg (Files for discussion/2016 July 4) &mdash; unsourced claim of location of (fake new CDP?) Weston, Illinois