Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Western Sonoma County Historical Society


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The result was delete. Tone 07:55, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Western Sonoma County Historical Society

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Entirely unsourced stub on a non-notable local history society. I am not seeing WP:SIGCOV— (p. 54) is the best I could do, and it's a capsule description. I thought about doing a WP:NPROF analog, by checking to see if it's been cited as a publisher or conservator of notable historical materials and/or influential in the field of history more broadly. By my reckoning, it hasn't. 23 hits on Google Scholar; 16 hits at the Internet Archive. It has also published a few local history books in collaboration with Arcadia Publishing, which seems to publish (good!) local histories on any community in the U.S. with someone willing to write one. Created by a sock but evidently wasn't G5'd (though maybe it still qualifies?) AleatoryPonderings (talk) 05:40, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete It should have been G5 as it was created after the editor was blocked. No effective referencing.    scope_creep Talk  23:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete, plausible db-org speedy. Western Sonoma County actually does have some significant history (see e.g. Fort Ross) but we have no evidence of independent in-depth publications about this organization that would give notability to it. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:21, 24 August 2020 (UTC)


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