Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Madeline (former settlement), California


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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:13, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Madeline (former settlement), California

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This appears to be a mistake in scraping Durham for names, because Madeline, California still exists, and even has its own post office. I do not have access to Durham's text, but the rough geography matches up; the coords in the article, which are not sourced, give a random point in the middle of nowhere. The spot described in the ghosttowns.com listing is clearly the extant town. I can find no evidence that there were two Madelines in the county, so I have to think this one is a mistake. Mangoe (talk) 17:21, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 17:23, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 17:12, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete There's no sign of anything at the unsourced coordinates given, and there doesn't appear to be a Madeline "62 miles North of Susanville" either. The most likely explanation is a duplicate that got mis-scraped somehow.
 * I don't have access to the Durham book for this area, but many of the entries in other editions are nothing more than "appears on X map, Y miles North of Z." If there was anything more than this, I like to think that the person who created the article would have included it. –dlthewave ☎ 02:50, 10 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete as per nom just as simple matter of cleanup. --Lockley (talk) 08:14, 14 July 2020 (UTC)


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