Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunshine, Arizona


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The result was redirect to Meteor Crater. Consensus is that it is a real place, but that it is not currently clear if it was ever inhabited. Should more sources surface in the future, the article can be restarted. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 08:06, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Sunshine, Arizona

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Well, this one is a mess, and searching is rendered almost impossible by a game named "Arizona Sunshine" which shows up in results no matter what I do to exclude it. Anyway, the GNIS entry is almost certainly a mistake of some sort: in spite of it supposedly being scraped from a topo map, I see no sign of it at the coordinates given, which locate to a hillside with nothing near it at all. Interestingly, GMaps goes to a different point, which happens to be at the end of a passing siding on the ATSF main line, just north of the I-40 exit to go to Meteor Crater. There is of course no civilization around other than an RV camp on the opposite side of the interstate, which is named after the crater, not the siding. Mangoe (talk) 22:30, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 22:35, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Arizona-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 22:35, 28 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment the article starter should be notified. Lightburst (talk) 22:35, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The point GMaps gives is consistent with the 1968 topo map, not sure about the discrepancy the coordinates on GNIS. Absent from the 1982 map. I found results that there was oil drilling taking place there and it was an RR station for a potential power plant  but nothing that it was a community. Reywas92Talk 00:34, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Thank you for the research and newspaper access Reywas92. From the evidence presented the subject fails WP:GNG and the SNG WP:GEOLAND Lightburst (talk) 03:05, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Meteor Crater. Sunshine station was the location of Meteor post office, detailed here. The establishment of the post office in 1906 at Sunshine serving the crater involved a petition to Theodore Roosevelt, so is of some note. Prior to 1902 the station was called "Sunset" as stated in Arizona Place Names but I haven't had much luck finding anything under that name. Redirecting Sunshine, Arizona to Meteor Crater also makes sense because some local geological features have ended up with the name, such as Sunshine Nose.Pontificalibus 08:31, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


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