Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sobrante, California

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The result was redirect to Giant Powder Company. Vanamonde (Talk) 00:01, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sobrante, California[edit]

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This one has been difficult to research. Most searches are overwhelmed by hits on El Sobrante, a nearby city. Durham calls Sobrante a locality on the Southern Pacific RR. Old topo maps show the name at a railroad siding with no other buildings in the vicinity. A couple other minor references to the fact that there was some sort of rail facility named Sobrante. Nothing to indicate that this was a community. There was a Sobrante School district but it was in the town of Giant. Not notable. Glendoremus (talk) 05:14, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 05:17, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 05:17, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to El Sobrante, California Delete per nom and below. // Timothy :: talk 01:05, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,   Kadzi   (talk) 20:55, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Redirect to El Sobrante doesn't make much sense. They share similar names but otherwise are unrelated. Sobrante is actually within Richmond. Glendoremus (talk) 21:43, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect. Redirect to Giant Powder Company. I ended up searching newspapers.com for "Sobrante Nitro", which found some hits. I did see a reference to explosion victims living at Giant, Richmond, California (aka Nitro), so it might make sense to redirect to there instead. However, the references for the explosives plant specifically mention Sobrante, not Giant. There are references for Sobrante having an explosives plant as early as 1883. The Giant, Richmond, California page states that the Giant Powder Company created the company town of Giant in 1892 citing a California Historical Landmark. It would be better to redirect Sobrante with Giant Powder Company because it predates Giant, Richmond, California and Sobrante has citations as being the site of the Giant plant. I have not yet found citations for anyone living at Sobrante and Sobrante did not have a post office, so I ~~agree with the nom that Sobrante was a siding and only a siding.~~ These days, Sobrante is not listed as having a Richmond Neighborhood Coordinating Council, so it seems like no one lives there now. Cxbrx (talk) 02:02, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I found two references that state that Sobrante was a fishing village, one reference says village was present in the late 1800s until WW I. However, I still think that this article should be redirected to Giant Powder Company. Cxbrx (talk) 01:09, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Redirect to Giant Powder Company per suggestion from Cxbrx. Wm335td (talk) 22:22, 8 August 2020 (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.