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The result was delete. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 16:05, 15 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Ohmer, California

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A small railroad station [1]; Durham's "Place Names of the San Francisco Bay Area" calls it a locality not a community. No other evidence of notabiity. Check out this photo to get a sense of how misleading GNIS can be. Glendoremus ( talk) 23:47, 23 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 13:54, 25 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 13:54, 25 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Keep - This book, History of Contra Costa County (1940), calls it a community. Magnolia677 ( talk) 17:22, 25 June 2020 (UTC) reply
• Delete Appears to be nothing more than a small railroad station. If this ever was a community, it hasn't received sufficient coverage to meet WP:GEOLAND. – dlthewave ☎ 03:08, 27 June 2020 (UTC) reply
• Keep per Magnolia677's find of appropriate sourcing.-- Milowent • ^{has spoken} 13:25, 29 June 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete Reminder that "community" is not our standard for automatic notability. A neighborhood, people who live on a road, or any arbitary collection of connected people can be a wt:community. Per WP:GEOLAND, this lacks coverage and recognition to establish notability. Reywas92 ^Talk 01:29, 2 July 2020 (UTC) reply

• Delete Not finding any evidence this was ever more than a rail station with a couple crossings. A "community" is sometimes a colloquialism for a collection of nearby houses/buildings, and calling something a community does not indicate the official recognition needed to get an automatic pass via WP:GEOLAND. Hog Farm _Bacon 14:13, 8 July 2020 (UTC) reply
• delete The only references I've found which deal with the site in any depth concern moving the station around in order to deal with grade crossings. They both make it clear that that the shed seen in the photo stood at an intersection which was gone by the 1950s, when the roads were reconfigured and the railroad bridge added; then the whole area was wiped clean in the late 1970s to make way for the highway interchange. No topo nor aerial view shows anything in the area except the shed, which disappears, and then a couple of other buildings appear and disappear; even the name disappears from the maps, until it is reinstated from GNIS. Given a couple of recent cases I've become less willing to accept off-hand references to a place as a "community" or even "town" without further narrative or the like which establishes town buildings or governance or the like, so I have to say that there's not enough evidence for this as a town; it's just a non-notable spot on the railroad. Mangoe ( talk) 18:04, 8 July 2020 (UTC) reply

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