Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott Lake, Thurston County, Washington


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   no consensus. No consensus to delete, especially given the rewrite near the end of the AfD. Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  03:41, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Scott Lake, Thurston County, Washington

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This appears to be a subdivision (housing estate) rather than a municipality of any sort. It's not incorporated, it's not a census-designated place, the GNIS does not recognize this as a populated place (though it does recognize the actual lake), and the U.S. Postal Service doesn't recognize it as a destination for mail (recognizing Olympia as the "actual city name" for the 98512 area code and giving only Tumwater as an "acceptable city name"). I can envision the possibility of a subdivision's being notable if there are reliable sources of non-trivial information to establish that it is out of the ordinary in some way, but I'm not finding any in this case. Deor (talk) 03:13, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

User:Appple
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions.   —Deor (talk) 03:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete From the first paragraph it would seem an advertisement, but looking further it isn't exactly, but it's not notable. a earnest attempt by a new person here to write an article where there just isn't material for one. DGG (talk) 04:32, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I can personally verify that Scott Lake exists... and is almost certainly insufficiently notable. :-) Anything worth keeping should be merged into articles on Olympia or Thurston County, Washington. Jclemens (talk) 05:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Scott Lake is not part of Olympia.  Its actually closer to Tumwater than to Olympia.
 * Convert/merge According to, there are two voter precincts named after the lake. While I'm not sure if there should be an article about the community, it should be possible to convert the article to one about the lake rather than houses around it. As it's the only lake of this name in the state, the title should be Scott Lake (Washington). To sort out what should stay in the article or not, I'd remove anything that can't be referenced (at least through local newspapers). BTW please mention the "Scott Lake Groundwater Study 2008" -- User:Docu
 * Keep/convert re: User:Docu. The lake is absolutely notable. Hill of Beans (talk) 20:52, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Why don't we try to clean up this article before deleting it? It seems to contain some notable information, but it seems to contain mostly unsourced junk.  If we clean it up (which could be as simple as deleting most of the page), we can then decide whether to merge the notable information into another page, or keep this as a page in its own right.  Cazort (talk) 22:09, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge into some other page...I'd like to see some mention of the lake itself stay somewhere, on some page. I'm open to suggestions.  Cazort (talk) 22:14, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

User: Appple —Preceding unsigned comment added by Appple (talk • contribs) 22:43, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment You might not care about Scott Lake or the community because you don't live there.  But the people that do live there are gonna be interested in the history of it.  I've changed the article so that it talks about the lake first.  So if you're only interested in the lake, you can read that part, and just not read the rest of the article.
 * Keep as re-written The lake seems notable. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:15, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


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