Talk:Shandaken, New York

Merger proposal

I'm thinking that the Big indian, new york article doesn't really merit a page by itself. Any suggestions or objections to the merge? Just as a note, the Belleayre ski center article may be affected by this. fintler (talk) 18:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

For starters, it looks like the Big Indian article needs to decide whether it's about Big Indian or Bearsville, or at least to explain the relationship. Other than that, I see no obvious reason the Bearsville/Big Indian article can't stand on its own-- there's probably a lot more history to the place that could be added. And there are plenty of precedents for very short articles on very small places. -- Mwanner | Talk 19:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Erm, I might have to retract the above-- I have never seen a hamlet with so little info online. So sure, I'd support a merge. If anyone comes up with a decent amount of info on the place, they could always change the redirect to an article. -- Mwanner | Talk 22:18, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

On third thought (having cleaned the thing up a bit) it occurs to me that what is there is a respectable stub that could be expanded by adding hiking info for the area-- there are a bunch of mountains nearby; see [1] for example. True, it could be dealt with in the Shandaken article too... -- Mwanner | Talk 22:32, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

It has been determined through consensus that all verifiable locations are inherently notable, and warrant an article. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 03:10, 29 November 2008 (UTC)