Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bucknum, Wyoming

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The result was keep. Rationale for keeping has been provided through referencing. Good work, Milowent! Firsfron of Ronchester 22:51, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bucknum, Wyoming

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Searching turns up Mr. Bucknum quite a bit, but otehr than some railroad-related hits and the usual position references, I get nothing that says this was a town. Topos don't go back very far, but a couple of aerials show what looks like a bunch of corrals, later replaced by an industrial concern that grows into the present bentonite mining facility. I don't see that this was ever anything more than a train station. Mangoe (talk) 02:31, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wyoming-related deletion discussions. Kpg jhp jm 10:00, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Mangoe (talk) 18:55, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No evidence of legal recognition so fails WP:GEOLAND #1. Post offices can be literally anywhere (even mobile) and are often co-located in stores/stations, so they are also not a form of legal recognition of a fixed community. No evidence of WP:SIGCOV that could allow it to pass WP:GNG in my WP:BEFORE. Wikipedia is not a gazetteer - we do not simply have articles for every populated place on the planet regardless of notability. FOARP (talk) 08:53, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I'm seeing a lot of homesteads in old newspapers, for instance [1], so this does seem to be a community at least at one time, albeit a predominantly rural one. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 13:44, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No source describes Bucknum as a community. No legal recognition, no SIGCOV that would meet GNG. –dlthewave ☎ 20:47, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I improved the article. It was a small community but it was a community for a few decades. It is about 24km (15 miles) from the westernmost suburbs of Casper today, so with modern cars, etc., just like many other communities like this, there was no need for it to exist on its own anymore.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 16:39, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: For further analysis, as the article has been exponentially expanded.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 04:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as improved. BD2412 T 06:11, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep after Wikipedia:HEY Djflem (talk) 14:55, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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