Talk:St-Guillaume Road (Russell Township)

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Are articles on roads in small communities that aren't even incorporated as separate towns really necessary? Bearcat 00:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Embrun isn't a small town by my standards. I live there and it has 11,500 people, more of a very small city then a town. The only reason why it is unincorporated and is part of Russell Township, Ontario is because the municipal government can't afford it.--FruitsAndVegetables133 19:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Be that as it may, individual streets aren't generally considered encyclopedic content on Wikipedia — even New York City, which is obviously vastly more important than Embrun, would never get an article on every single individual street in the entire city. There are obvious exceptions (e.g. Broadway, Yonge Street, The Strand, etc.), but those are all famous streets in major metropolises, which have an overriding cultural and sociological context. The vast majority of streets in the world simply don't qualify as encyclopedic content, and I don't see that any street in Embrun qualifies as more notable than usual.

Also, considering that the Canada 2001 Census gives a population of 12,412 for the whole of Russell Township, and doesn't even provide population figures for communities below the level of the officially incorporated municipality, I'm curious what your source is for citing 11,500 as the population of Embrun alone (leaving just 900 people for the entire rest of the township put together). It's not enough to say "I know because I live here"; community population figures on Wikipedia have to come directly from verifiable government census figures. Bearcat 21:41, 15 May 2006 (UTC)