Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cooper, Lake County, California

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:43, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cooper, Lake County, California[edit]

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This is an object case on why creating these geostubs is a bad idea. On the maps, this is a word and nothing more. There are no buildings and no physical feature other than Cooper Creek. Searching is completely hopeless because the word is just way too common. If this article hadn't been created until someone had some substantive information, nobody would have to go through this. Mangoe (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note This 2015 letter to the editor of the Lake County Record-Bee newspaper might be of interest as it mentions this Wikipedia entry (third on page titled "What is Witter Springs?").----Pontificalibus 14:55, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Well Witter Springs, California is a tiny bit more informative now, now that the Project:WikiProject California/GNIS cleanup task force effort has triaged it. We can pull history up to 1915 from the source that we have now, and there is some. Uncle G (talk) 01:21, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Evidence it is not now a populated place, and no evidence it ever was, fails WP:V (since we know the only source is not reliable for this purpose). ----Pontificalibus 14:55, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 16:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's not in the Arcadia Resorts of Lake County book, and it wasn't a spring. The adjacent Cooper Creek is suggestive, but turns out to be no help whatsoever in answering the real question, which is What is Cooper?. Settlement? Campsite? Someone's house? Tree? This is unverifiable. I cannot find out what this even is/was. Uncle G (talk) 01:33, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Found a couple references to Oscar Cooper's ranch in Mendocino County, and this site is super close to the Lake/Mendocino line, so maybe there's an error somewhere and that's it, but if we have to try to guess to identify the place, it's safe to say it's not notable. Hog Farm _Talk 02:45, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.