Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Bucket Cow Camp, Oregon


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The result was   delete. As explained by the delete !votes below, this subject is not of the kind we normally keep per our gazetteer function without demonstrated notability. postdlf (talk) 22:37, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Blue Bucket Cow Camp, Oregon

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Valfontis (talk) 21:41, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as nominator. Contested Prod on non-notable place. Per GNIS, this is a "locale", defined as: "Place at which there is or was human activity; it does not include populated places, mines, and dams (battlefield, crossroad, camp, farm, ghost town, landing, railroad siding, ranch, ruins, site, station, windmill)" (emphasis mine). I can find no evidence this was ever a populated place and there are no sources for it. Looks like this was created in in good faith as one of a series of quirky U.S. place names based on containers. Awesome place name, IMO, but no sources means no notability. Per my comments on the talk page, if a trip to the library yields up some reliable sources this article may recreated without prejudice. There are tens of thousands of "locales" on GNIS, not all of them are going to be notable. Valfontis (talk) 21:49, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:11, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete I too wish this was a notable place because of its name, but there just don't seem to be any sources about it. It just appears to be a cow camp, and cow camps with no unusual characteristics aren't notable. (Besides, based on my interpretation of the talk page, the name isn't as interesting as it seems; Blue Bucket Creek, itself probably a notable geographic feature, appears to have had the name first.) TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 22:17, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment Per Merriam-Webster, a "cow camp" is "a cowboy camp : a roundup headquarters". Oddly enough, Oxford goes one better with the definition "a seasonal camp apart from the main buildings of a ranch, used during a cattle roundup". Finally "Western words: a dictionary of the range, cow camp and trail" says: "Cowboy's headquarters on a roundup, a place where a group of cowmen have gathered to work cattle". So this means the place in the article is likely a site that is used seasonally, and certainly not a permanently populated place. There are probably hundreds of these in the American west. Note also that per GNIS Bluebucket Creek appears to be the preferred spelling. Valfontis (talk) 23:25, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep as part of Wikipedia's remit as a gazetteer under the Five Pillars as a geographic location. - The Bushranger One ping only 02:21, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, --Regards, MrScorch6200 (talk · contribs)  19:08, 15 February 2014 (UTC)


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