Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tatu, California

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 23:56, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tatu, California[edit]

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Topos show an isolated station/water stop, and I found the usual California regulation decision about closing it. Searching is somewhat problematic for reasons which weren't particularly clear, but nothing shows this to be a settlement. Mangoe (talk) 23:55, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. jp×g 00:03, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. jp×g 00:03, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. My own analysis of the topographic maps brings me to the same conclusion: this doesn't ever seem to have been anything. As for the garbage search results, finding sources for geostubs like this is always a pain in the arse because so many websites auto-generate pages based on the same GNIS data (not to mention the vast amount of websites which auto-mirror Wikipedia pages, lol). jp×g 00:08, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Maybe Mangoe was distracted by All the Things She Said on a loop whilst reading the search results. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 02:39, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Uncle G: lol jp×g 17:21, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Old newspapers results identify it as a minor rail stop/station. At first, I thought I had found some decent coverage, but it turns out the article I found titled for Tatu only really had one or two sentences about Tatu and the rest was about an unrelated native tribe. Doesn't seem to be notable. Hog Farm _Talk 00:43, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, definitely a railway station, as well as the name of the adjacent creek. Helpfully, the 1927 Rider's California: A Guide-book for Travelers has a description on page 127 of the railway line, listing the stops successively as Farley, Tatu, and Dos Rios. It gives distances and elevations for all of the stops, but only for Dos Rios, California does it give a population of 217.
Mangoe, if Farley, California was about to be next on your list, I found at the same time Lyman A. Palmer's 1880 History of Mendocino County that outlines the boundary of its school district on page 153.
Uncle G (talk) 02:58, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This station stop is only of minor notability.TH1980 (talk) 02:39, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, Not enough coverage to pass WP:GNG. Alex-h (talk) 10:27, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: No reliable sources, no evidence of notability. Fails GNG. TheDreamBoat (talk) 06:04, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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