Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawing, Alaska
Looking at , particularly "Even abandoned places can remain notable, because notability encompasses their entire history", this would appear to be an easy keep !vote.  GNIS lists it as a populated place.  The GNIS entry states: "Listed as a station in The Alaska RR. guide of 1925. Recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps indicate a site of six or seven buildings".  One of those sources that Beeblebrox appears to imply doesn't exist or is not very important to note is the history of Alaska post offices compiled by Melvin Ricks (a credible historian, not some hack website writer) and published in 1965.  In that work (page 39), we see that Lawing had its own post office from 1924 to 1929 and 1932 to 1936.  These facts alone show that it passes the threshold expected of independently notable populated places.  Beeblebrox's rationale appears to imply that its present-day location is all that really matters, which I don't believe is at all compatible with the way things work.  Common sense says that a merge/redir is not harmful, but neither is keeping the article.  Regardless, it won't do anything about the countless thousands of other geostubs which exist to relentlessly parrot a particular MoS and/or particular sources but not to deliver useful information to readers.  The target is also suspect, as Nellie Neal Lawing is just as likely a target in this case.  I would hesitate in merging it to yet another NRHP permastub.  We already spend too much effort subtly pushing the POV that a place is notable because of its NRHP listing but not necessarily because of anything that occurred in its history which led up to that listing, to the point where in many cases we're |creating a directory of listings more than creating encyclopedic content.  I didn't come here to gratuitously promote the NRHP, but you couldn't necessarily say the same about other editors judging from their contributions
— User:RadioKAOS, 03:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:GEOLAND||WP:NOTDIR (Wikipedia:Notability)