Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernard, Louisiana


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Complex / Rational 22:21, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Bernard, Louisiana

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Another unsourced-but-actually-from-GNIS article. GNIS's source is "The Greater Slidell Area Chamber of Commerce City Map" (1988) but old enough topos show this as "Benard". Those topos suggest that it's another rail spot. At any rate there's no sign of a settlement here. Mangoe (talk) 19:42, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Louisiana.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  20:26, 17 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete This page has been tagged as unsourced since 2013. The community doesn't show up in census data or other place-based searches. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 22:06, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete The places sourced from local Chamber of Commerce maps and similar places might be some of the least reliable in the GNIS, and it's a bad sign if they may not have even spelled the name right. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 19:16, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The best way to clean up these many (some already deleted) zero-source context-free substubs for Louisiana by sock-puppeteer is to delete them, and let competent writers start proper articles about properly documented things in due course.  Anything else is an utter waste of our time. Uncle G (talk) 01:51, 19 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete 1. Searched Google Earth and found no roads, buildings, or other infrastructure indicative of a populated place at given location of Bernard, Louisiana.
 * 2. USGS topographic maps - "Bernard" only shows up as a place name on 1947 Oberlin, LA 1:31680 scale USGS topographic map. No sign of infrastructure indicative of a populated place shown by map. Place name absent from 1961, Oberlin, LA 1:62,500 scale USGS topographic map and 1986, Oberlin, LA 1:24,000 scale USGS topographic maps. No sign of infrastructure indicative of a populated place shown by either maps.
 * 3. SCS soil map - Looked at soil map on sheet 37 of "Soil Survey of Allen Parish, Louisiana" by the Soil Conservation Service (1980). It lacks any text, symbology, and visible infrastructure (roads and buildings) indicative of a populated place. Go see Soil Survey of Allen Parish, Louisiana. and Internet Archive PDF file.
 * 4. The 1952, 1:62,500, geologic map in "Geology of Beauregard and Allen Parishes" by Holland, W.C., Hough, L.W., and Murray, G.E. (Louisiana Geological Survey) shows a place on US 165 named "Bernard" at the given coordinates. This map does not show any streets associated with it.
 * 5. In the historic archives of newspapers.com found over 4,100 matches for "Bernard" in Allen Parish, Louisiana. Largely, the names of personsand local roads. Unable to tell if any of these refer to a populated place or not. The search for "town of Bernard" in Allen Parish, Louisiana did not return any matches. Paul H. (talk) 21:32, 21 November 2023 (UTC)


 * 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.