Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Newton's Crossing, California


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The result was delete. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  17:58, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Newton's Crossing, California

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I honestly don't think this is was an actual community, rather just a point where the road crossed the river and Newton lived. The article itself states that Newton owned the place and that it was a house and 160 acres of land, which screams "ranch, not a community". This calls it the point where the Stockton Road crosses the Cowchilla River. The source also states that since the Cowchilla meandered and was cut up with irrigation ditches, it was impossible to locate the exact spot of the crossing. Now, if there was truly a community here, why would determining the location depend on finding which irrigation ditch was truly the Cowchilla? There's several similar newspapers.com results, as well as a few for a railroad project that doesn't seem to be related. Not in Gudde, and there's no GNIS entry for the exact spelling "Newton's Crossing", although since GNIS is mostly useless for determining notability, I didn't check variants. The coverage is generally pretty light, and I don't think it adds up to WP:GNG, and since this was evidently a river crossing where somebody had a ranch, WP:GEOLAND isn't met either. Hog Farm Bacon 22:12, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 22:12, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 22:12, 7 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete: per nom, fails GNG and NGEO. WP:GEOLAND "informal regions of a state, unofficial neighborhoods, etc. – any of which could be considered notable on a case-by-case basis, given non-trivial coverage in multiple, independent reliable sources."  // Timothy ::  talk  15:01, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per User:Bearian/Standards; ranches are not automatically notable, and require WP:SIGCOV to pass WP:GNG. Bearian (talk) 22:40, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


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