Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Main Roads of Belfast

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 delete --Sam Blanning^(talk) 12:46, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main Roads of Belfast

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. This list was moved from the Belfast article to a seperate page. Contains no useful information, and is unencyclopedic. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 08:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, as per User:Stumason. Unencyclopedic - Ali-oops^✍ 08:39, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Angus McLellan (Talk) 09:04, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep we have List of London streets and roads, List of roads and highways, List of streets and roads in Hong Kong, List of State Routes in New York, List of New York State Reference Routes and List of state highways in the United States to name but a few Jcuk 10:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
  • The New York/HK articles are much more comprehensive. Most of the roads mentioned on them have articles. It is very unlikely that many of the Belfast roads will ever have, or will ever deserve, their own article. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 11:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - no definition of what makes a "main road", so this is POV. Vizjim 10:37, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - unnecessary. Gerry Lynch 12:18, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unencyclopedic & unnecessary. --Srikeit^{(talk ¦ ✉)} 14:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, expand and rename if possible per JcUK. Some of these roads already have their own articles (now linked). Given the history of the area and the uniquely segregated nature of Belfast, it is in my view likely that many of these roads may well have a historical or cultural significance, especially in connection with The Troubles. For obvious reasons, Shankill Road and the Falls Road are already quite reasonable articles. I would strongly support a rename to, e.g. 'A-roads of Belfast', 'B-roads of Belfast', or similar, since the current one is inherently POV (UNLESS there is some official Highways Agency definition of a main road that I'm not aware of?). Badgerpatrol 16:19, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. This information has been removed a number of times from Belfast but a article is not appropriate (nor the listing of them on wikipedia). A link to an authoritive external website (explaining their significance, if any) would be more appropriate. Djegan 17:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

• To those saying this list in unencyclopaedic, is the same not true of the other lists I mentioned? If so they should be AfD'd too. If however the other lists are encyclopaedic, then this one must be. You cant treat one set of roads any different from any other set of roads. Unless you want to start saying Jersey cows are less encyclopaedic than Fresian cows, Spanish villages are less encyclopaedic than German ones, or Mexican people are less encyclopaedic than American ones, for example. Jcuk 11:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Please answer the point about what defines a "main road". If this list was called A roads in Northern Ireland it would at least not be POV. Vizjim 14:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Stu & Vizjim. TheMadBaron 17:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep for the moment for reasons given by user: Jcuk and Badgerpatrol. However this should be conditional on articles being written on the other roads. If that is not done on comining months, there would be case for deletion. I note that there are artticles (of very varying quality on some English A-roads. Peterkingiron 23:09, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. The vast majority of the other roads do not deserve articles. The urban part of the Gilnahirk Road is about a mile long and contains nothing but houses and a school. The same is true for some of the others. You have to remember there is a distiction between the mains roads of a city the size of Belfast, and a city like London. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 15:07, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
• Are the main roads of Belfast not relevant information about Belfast? Why are some of the areas of Belfast listed and not others ie Ormeau Castlereagh? All the small villages are listed. 62.252.148.32 00:28, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Listcruft. Zaxem 11:49, 22 May 2006 (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.