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The result was delete. Tone 07:21, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Camp Flat Rock, Indiana[edit]

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This is a YMCA camp, not a community (GMaps). Please do not mass-create articles based on nothing but the GNIS. Reywas92^Talk 02:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 02:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. Reywas92^Talk 02:07, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete no RS exists to show that this is a populated legally recognized place. Also the topo map reveals a river which may or may not qualify for an article. However this does not. Lightburst (talk) 02:21, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Evking22, putting a link to a topo map that says "Camp Flat Rock" on it does in fact prove this exists, congratulations! What it does not do is establish notability: WP:NGEO says "This guideline specifically excludes maps and various tables from consideration when establishing topic notability, because these sources often establish little except the existence of the subject." It's a camp, yes: 1955 blurb, 1959 blurb, but not a notable "unincorporated community". Reywas92^Talk 03:20, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You have just accidentally established notability with the existence of those newspaper clippings, congratulations! Evking22 (talk) 03:24, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah noooo. Gonna need more significant coverage for a generic summer camp than an announcement to sign up. Reywas92^Talk 03:50, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep This is a notable place. Evking22 (talk) 03:26, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - Not a named natural feature or permanently populated place, so WP:GEOLAND does not apply. The location would then have to pass WP:GNG, and the brief coverage found is mostly run of the mill announcements, which do not have the depth used to establish notability. Hog Farm (talk) 18:43, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• delete I must correct one mistake: this is not the current YMCA camp, which is on the other side of St. Paul. I have however located this passage from a history of the county which is clearly about the correct location. It states that the Camp Flat Rock started out as something of a picnic grove and evolved into a local park, which was eventually taken over by the Boy Scouts and then sold to a family which apparently operated it as a campground for some years after. It was never a settlement and its fame appears to have been purely local. Mangoe (talk) 02:10, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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