Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mendota, Kansas

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The result was merge‎ to Ellis Township, Ellis County, Kansas. The Wordsmith^{Talk to me} 22:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mendota, Kansas

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Another 4th class post office in a house that we are pretending is a "community". It must have been very crowded in there. Mangoe (talk) 20:53, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Kansas. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:42, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: listed in Blackmar (p. 268) with the following description: "a country hamlet in Ellis county, is located in Hamilton township, about 20 miles northwest of Hays, the county seat, and 10 miles from Ellis, its shipping point and the postoffice from which it receives mail by rural route." Labelled on this old map^[1] as "Mendota P.O." Jbt89 (talk) 05:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • And listed as a hamlet in Ellis County, Kansas#Communities, because I went through all of the ones that Blackmar had, as well as all of the post offices listed in the State Board of Agriculture reports. Uncle G (talk) 10:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: Found this 1971 article in the Hays newspaper about Mendota.[1] --Milowent • ^hasspoken 19:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into Ellis Township, Ellis County, Kansas. It's pretty clear that this was just a "post village," with a post office and perhaps a general store to serve the surrounding rural area, not true town. Similar case to Elk, Kansas (also mentioned in Blackmar), which we merged into the article on the surrounding township. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbt89 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge according to consensus or delete I checked the ellis county papers. I couldn't find anything that disputes what has already been said. But, in april of the year the post office changed names from Halton to Mendota, the person sending in the news to the paper from Halton, wrote that the name of the post office had changed. And just like that everyone started calling it Mendota. I think if it had a community identity, that would not have happened.James.folsom (talk) 22:57, 2 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.