Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coburn, Kansas


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Daniel (talk) 03:26, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Coburn, Kansas

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Yet another short-lived post office in Kansas, this one is almost completely hopeless: there's no trace of it on the topos, and the GNIS entry is gone so there's no way to find out where that came from. And of course there's nothing there, although older topos show a "Brubaker Sch." a bit to the east of the spot indicated in the article. Mangoe (talk) 04:15, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * See Articles for deletion/Bowling Green, Kansas. Uncle G (talk) 05:12, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Kansas.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  05:17, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Doesn't even appear on any USGS topographic maps as far as I can tell. GNIS entry is deleted, so we're down to one source that says there was a post office for a year, in an era when post offices could literally be private residences.  Yeah, we don't need this article. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 15:53, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete: There's nothing to see on satellite besides a sand field and a few residences and farms here and there within a mile around the given coordinates. No evidence to suggest this is, or was ever an actual community other than a short-lived post office in the early 20th century. This is not a "ghost town" per the article, there's nothing to see there at all. Fails WP:GEOLAND. Streetlampguy301 (talk) 17:03, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete According to the Ottawa Daily Republic 30 May 1901 "Just Found "Coburn"; The amazing ignorance of State House Officials"; the place did not exist and never existed. Apparently, The railroad commissioner in unison with a Topeka reporter noticed a new post office in Franklin county named Coburn. None of them had ever heard of the place, so there was hunt. They found It had been there for year at that point, w/o anyone knowing about it. The long and short of it was that the Secretary of Agriculture, one Mr. Coburn had somehow finagled a post to be named for him and located near a farm where he had worked in the past. It's an Ego stunt. It was clipped earlier today, and based on their clippings it's somebody we know. So I'm not the first on this discovery. Sorry I'm not quite sure how to post it, but it's in the WP library in the Ancestry newspapers database.James.folsom (talk) 00:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * So someone looked for the person that I mentioned in Articles for deletion/Bowling Green, Kansas and got back a newspaper reporting as I did that this is a claimed rural post office, but almost a century and a quarter earlier? That is amusing.  An AFD rationale pre-supplied by an Ottawa Daily Republic journalist.  Uncle G (talk) 11:45, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * This is the clipping. https://www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/article/the-ottawa-daily-republic-coburn-postoff/38513955/ It's pretty interesting but, I wasn't looking for your guy, I had forgotten about him. I was looking for the post office. I will take this material from the clipping and add it to the persons article.
 * James.folsom (talk) 20:39, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't have access to that sort of stuff from here. So I simply look forward to seeing what you wring out of the source.  Uncle G (talk) 14:58, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't understand, I only have access because of the Wiki library, I thought you used the wiki library too.
 * James.folsom (talk) 20:24, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per User:James.folsom. This was not a town but a paper post office. Nothing to see here. Firsfron of Ronchester  22:29, 1 January 2024 (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.