Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chimehuevis Landing, California

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 was redirect to Lake Havasu. Consensus is to not keep this. The definitive target of the redirect and any merger is now up to editors. Sandstein 10:41, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Chimehuevis Landing, California

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Contested PROD. This is a former river landing, and a rather obscure one it seems. The coverage in the sole source provided is the single sentence Chimehuevis and Liverpool landings, serving both the ranchers and scattered miners, were the only regular stops for the steamers until they reached Fort Mohave., as well as a passing mention in a table of distances. A WP:BEFORE brings up only similar passing mentions, inclusions on old maps, mentions with no explanation in lists of place names, and a rather large bunch of mirrrors and forks of this article. Fails WP:GEOLAND and WP:GNG. Hog Farm _Talk 17:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 17:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm _Talk 17:46, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - A very quick search of books leads me to believe this place is notable. However if consensus is delete, then I suggest that it be merged into Chemehuevi, the indigenous people who are still very much alive today (this was their land before settlers/colonists arrived). Netherzone (talk) 21:30, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- @Netherzone: - Could you link some of those book results? Everything I'm getting fails WP:SIGCOV, but I might have been using bad search terms. I'm also not convinced that this steamboat landing has much to do with the Chemehuevi beyond maybe the name. Hog Farm _Talk 22:13, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - Hog Farm, I will add them to the article in the next couple days. Netherzone (talk) 23:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thanks! Hog Farm _Talk 23:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge or Redirect to either Chemehuevi or Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation or possibly to Lake Havasu or Parker Dam. It was indeed a known 19c riverboat landing along the Colorado River, the closest landing to Fort Mojave. It was one of several villages that were flooded when the Parker Dam was built and Lake Havasu created. This is why the coordinates geolocate to the middle of the water. This newspaper story describes divers looking for "Indian artifacts" underwater, and describes Chemihuevi Landing as a "fledgling city" along with others that were flooded: Castle Dome, Ehrenberg, Williams Fork, Mohave City, Ft. Mohave, Hardyville, Callvalle.[1] Although I've found 9 citations and a couple photos that could possibly be added to the article, but I do not think this article should be kept. It might be interesting in the future to create an article on the numerous villages that were flooded from the damming of the Colorado River. Netherzone (talk) 16:36, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- My preference for a merger target would be Lake Havasu. Hog Farm _Talk 16:43, 16 February 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.