Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Catchbasin, California

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was speedily deleted as a clear and present hoax. FCYTravis 05:03, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Catchbasin, California

This article appears to be completely unverifiable. "Catchbasin" or "Catch Basin" is not to be found in any online directory of Californian cities and towns, including the National Atlas. There is a Catch Basin well in Arizona and a Catch Basin dam in Pennsylvania, but no town. Googling for the name plus "1898", the supposed year of founding, yields nothing (that is, plenty of catch basins, but no towns). The assertion that this small town is a "sister city" of Pensacola, Florida seems to be plainly false, if the information at [1] is correct. This is either an article about a very small and hard to find town, or a Nihilartikel. I'd like to find out the former is the case, but I wouldn't want this article to stick around indefinitely while we wait. JRM ยท Talk 16:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Delete I added the cleanup-verify tag after a quick attempt to verify with Google failed. The above evidence is compelling, we don't need uncited articles on non-existant towns. The guy who created this article, User:Sawbones Jerrymanderer, should be noted as well... from his user page: "I will continue to spread truth throughout Wikipedia, despite the revisions of the nonbelievers". Catchbasin, California seems like a hoax the more I look at it.--W.marsh 16:53, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as hoax. Durova 18:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as unverifiable. Capitalistroadster 19:19, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
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.