Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pinnio, California


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:07, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Pinnio, California

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Another rail location, this time on an abandoned SP line. and that is exactly all that I can find out about this place beyond the usual GNIS data. Pretty clear this was never a town. Mangoe (talk) 14:27, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions.  ~ Amkgp  💬  14:29, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  ~ Amkgp  💬  14:29, 6 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment Is there no list article for abandoned railway stations in California that this can be redirected too? Govvy (talk) 15:56, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * As a rule, we cannot even be sure there were station buildings at each of these places. Possibly if there were articles on each rail line, those articles could be targets, but for whatever reason, most such potential articles don't get written. Mangoe (talk) 16:23, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment The Federal Information Processing Standards Publication, Volume 55, Issue 3, Part 1 published by the Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1994, lists Pinnio, Lassen with a class-code of U6, which corresponds to 'a populated place with an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S Geological Survey' (paraphrased by me) per page 20. This publication could easily be relying on GNIS data to define whether a place is populated or not, furthering the known systematic error. The 'Tule Mountain' section (the 30th-ish page of the document) of the California Statewide Wilderness Study Report 1990 Volume 2 BLM has a map of the area. While a key isn't provided, an interpretation of the map would be that Pinnio and Madeline are settlements, and Sage Hen Stat [sic] is not. Zindor (talk) 00:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No credible evidence that a settlement named Pinnio ever existed. Glendoremus (talk) 04:14, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 13:20, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence of a notable community. Reywas92Talk 17:17, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete can't see any good evidence it exists or used to, and without that we shouldn't have an article on it. There's clearly nobody living there now and it's only just outside the actual settlement of Madeline, California.  Hut 8.5  18:46, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't have access to the Durham source, so can't comment on that, but the other sources that could have shed light on the existence of Pinnio as a settlement are either not reliable or can't be interpreted without original research. One can see on satellite imagery that at least one house is in the area concerned, and the map i referenced above suggests that Pinnio had status as a minor settlement (smaller than Madeline) but alas that isn't a high enough standard of proof. Zindor (talk) 01:28, 14 July 2020 (UTC)


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