Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clear Lake, Cass County, Illinois


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The result was merge to Bluff Springs Township, Cass County, Illinois. Star  Mississippi  03:21, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Clear Lake, Cass County, Illinois

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Older topos show both a lake and a cluster of homes labelled as "clear lake", but whatever was there doesn't seem to have received significant coverage to establish notability. Newspaper results returned plenty of other Clear Lakes, particularly in Iowa and Dakota Territory, even when restricted to Illinois papers. –dlthewave ☎ 05:48, 15 August 2022 (UTC) Relisting comment: Relisting because of the mixed opinions about the value of redirecting/merging this article to other articles. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 06:25, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Illinois. –dlthewave ☎ 05:48, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge to Bluff Springs Township, Cass County, Illinois.  Imzadi 1979  →   05:52, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge to Bluff Springs Township, Cass County, Illinois per NGEO and AtD. Djflem (talk) 06:01, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * delete This is very hard to search because of the adjoining lake, but the only possible reference to it I could find was an 1882 history of the county which states of one John W. Thompson, "He is one of the most prominent farmers of this county, where he owns 612 acres of land; the somewhat famous 'Clear Lake', of this county, is mostly owned by him." I do see some dots on old topos, which correspond to buildings on aerials, but almost none of it is there now, and it's not terribly clear what those buildings were. It's certainly a leap to assume they were houses people lived in. I'm opposed to redirecting these articles to the townships anyway, but especially in this case where we cannot really tell what was here. Mangoe (talk) 23:27, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * delete Merge is not an AfD outcomeand it is not clear what could be merged in this article which is 1 line article with one source that merely establishes existence. There is no encyclopaedic topic here, and nor is one possible in this case, so per WP:GEOLAND, this should be deleted. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 20:31, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge is a possible AFD outcome. It happens all of the time. Liz Read! Talk! 05:43, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I stand corrected, but I don't see anything here to merge. (By way of explanation, I had an AfD case a few years ago where the closer closed it as merge and told me that I then had to propose a merge as it was not a deletion. I cannot remember which case it was so as to refer to it now. I think it was a list article). Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 06:29, 26 August 2022 (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.