Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blue Eagle, Minnesota

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The result was delete‎. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:10, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blue Eagle, Minnesota

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Not finding evidence of the existence of this "ghost town" as asserted in this unsourced article. Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:GEOLAND. Cielquiparle (talk) 12:56, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Minnesota. Cielquiparle (talk) 12:56, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I found a mention of a Blue Eagle Mill in Westbrook: [1]. Otherwise nothing. No source, no article. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 15:25, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Neither the history from the 2013 versions of this article, which gets street and avenue confused, nor the "personal knowledge" history from the 2014 versions of this article are verifiable. This has had its content blanked twice, and even been deleted once already, for being unverifiable. I have looked and come up empty. There is no documentation to be found confirming anything in the edit history of this article, and the editors who wrote it offered nothing. Add me to the list of editors who over the years have found this article to be unverifiable. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 16:14, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Only the faintest whispers of Blue Eagle exist. The MNopedia article on the "Currie Line Railroad" written by a member of the Cotton County Historical Society says "Five miles farther west, the village of Blue Eagle had begun in 1870. The arrival of the Currie Line caused the small village’s demise. It was replaced with the village of Westbrook..."[2] That rail line opened in 1900. The 2014 Cottonwood County Visitors Guide[3] says "Thirty years before Westbrook was settled, pioneers established a nearby village known as Blue Eagle. When the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad came to plot out a town site, it got into a dispute with a landowner. As a result, a new town was platted." That story is consistent with the 2014 personal history edit of this article[4]. No hits on newspapers.com or newspaperarchive.com of relevance. On the MN newspaper database, The Windom Reporter (local county seat newspaper) had a sentence on February 15, 1900, "I would like to know where that town of Blue Eagle is you newspaper men tell us about," which I take to be a suggestion that Blue Eagle isn't much of a "town". Alas that's the only 1900 issue online, so we can't see what the reporters were talking about. But the 1896 plat map of the county doesn't show anything marked as Blue Eagle. The best we can say it that it was a place name in use at some point.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 18:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I've noticed that in the late 18th century it didn't take much for people to call a place a village. It seems like any place important will most often be called a town or a city. I'd imagine there was a trading post or general store there. This one fails on lack of reliable sources.James.folsom (talk) 00:12, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.