Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biskra Palms, California


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 06:56, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Biskra Palms, California

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According to this story from The Press-Enterprise, no town was ever built at this site. They do not repeat the imported palms story, but do imply that palms were planted there to create a sort of imitation oasis. At any rate, any notability is quite local, and it was never a settlement. Mangoe (talk) 03:04, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:47, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 10:47, 9 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete. No post office. I updated the article with a number of citations.  Durham is wrong, the palms at Biskra are native and were not transplanted from Algeria.  I found a citation stating that no one lived there.  I found not much of note in GBooks other than one source, though I did not look very hard.   Biskra was a yet another non-notable failed planned community. As there is no legal recognition, there is only trivial coverage of the location that indicates that it was not a community, neither #1 nor #2 of WP:GEOLAND are met.  This locale is not a notable community and the article should be deleted.  If someone wants to try to redo the article as some sort of notable hiking spot, go for it, but it seems WP:MILL to me as a hike and would probably be better off as part of a larger article about hiking areas in the region.  Cxbrx (talk) 18:31, 9 January 2021 (UTC)


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