Deletion of Lycurgus, Iowa

Comment: per Milowent's excellent research and additions to the article. There's no doubt this was more than a post office, as St. Mary's Church became known as the Lycurgus Church; Rand McNally considered it a community in 1903, and there was a school that operated until the 1960s. Sources noted the community at the time, and |notability is not temporary
Stance: keep
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Comment: This is the kind of maybe-a-place that makes me uncomfortable about the standards behind . "Unincorporated community" is still a euphemism: for places that are do not have definite boundaries but which anyone driving through would recognize as towns or cities, we use (or should use) those words. When we come upon something like this, where there is only an isolated church now and where there were short-lived businesses which may not have been nearby, and a post office which lived in whatever place was convenient enough, it's an act of a certain degree of |research to assemble this into a town. I've skipped over a number of these Iowa places where you can see, from the air, that there is some concentration of dwellings and businesses, generally with side streets and the like. But when we come to something like this where I can't find any evidence of such a concentration, and nobody comes right out and says it was there, I'm really hard-pressed to agree that it is a former settlement— and it plainly is not a present one
Stance: comment
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