Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pentland, California


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Sam-2727 (talk) 01:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Pentland, California

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Former junction on the Sunset Railroad where a spur led to Hazelton and Maricopa. No sign that there was ever a community here. –dlthewave ☎ 01:51, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep It was platted as a town in 1911, oil was found there, there was a station there , it's used as a place name in newspaper searches as late as 2017. The railroad Y appears to have been called Pentland Junction on a 1931 topographic map. . SportingFlyer  T · C  03:32, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep In addition to the evidence SportingFlyer found, here's another article that mentions a saloon at Pentland. There definitely seems to have been an actual community here. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 12:50, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Based on the evidence presented above, it appears that the nominator may not have exercised his due diligence. Pentland is also cited in numerous congressional reports eg to add on to the list of actual historical citations Kingoflettuce (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per the above by SportingFlyer. It appears this was a population center. Oakshade (talk) 19:31, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Thanks for looking into it.   Woerich   (talk)   21:20, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


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