Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bachelor Lake (Brown County, Minnesota): Difference between revisions

 

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Lake is not notable. All that is known is its location (and hence also elevation) and uninsightful assertion, from its name, that it is named for a bachelor who lived nearby. I presume that was either a) simply made up by the commercial author of a typical place names book, which just asserts "Bachelor lake, in Stark, was named for a lone homesteader there, unmarried" while in fact it was named for a childhood pet or a song or a place where someone grew up or in honor of their uncle or whatever; or maybe b) there was a bachelor there, but in either case it is not interesting or encyclopedic and does not suffice to open a Wikipedia article. Note, there has been a fairly wide misapprehension that Wikipedia is a gazetteer about lakes, while that is not true. This does not meet [[wp:GNG]] or [[wp:GEOLAND]] or any other criteria for existence. This is similar to recent [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Halifax Lake]], where all that was known is the location and an assertion it was named for where someone came from. [[User:Doncram|Doncram]] ([[User talk:Doncram|talk]]) 04:55, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

 

* '''Keep''', as a well-attested geographic feature. The nominator makes speculative presumptions about the origin of the name. The name is cited to [[Warren Upham]], whose work on Minnesota place names is cited over 3,000 times in Wikipedia. That source is undisputedly reliable. [[User:Kablammo|Kablammo]] ([[User talk:Kablammo|talk]]) 12:58, 14 December 2019 (UTC)