Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crichton Park

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash^talk 01:03, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Crichton Park

Non notable? Abstain. -- (☺drini♫|☎) 00:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Suburbs are valid wiki entires. Cnwb 01:32, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Rename, keep and expand. --Centauri 02:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. -- Spinboy 03:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete — non-notable + stub = delete. Andrew pmk | Talk 03:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Question: is this "suburb" as in a defined and named city neighbourhood (comparable to Rexdale, Ontario), or is it "suburb" as in a housing subdivision (comparable to the recently deleted Creditvalley, Mississauga, Ontario? My vote may differ based on which of these it is. Bearcat 03:32, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless someone expands it soon, it is NN and needs to go--Rogerd 08:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• weak keep else merge to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.Roodog2k (talk) 13:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless it is proven this is shown to be a true neighbourhood or municipality. Google seems to indicate its just a sub-division tho the Dartmouth page lists it as an "area." Marskell 15:36, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep This is most likely an article started by students at Crichton Park Elementary. They are listed on Yahooligans too. So, let's encourage these young newcomers. I took the liberty of cleaning up the article. There are other articles for unincorporated neighborhoods, such as Westwood, Los Angeles, California, andHancock Park, Los Angeles, California. Let's keep the article, and allow a new generation of Wikipedians, albeit Canadians, join us. ALSO I JUST NOTICED THAT THIS ARTICLE WAS STARTED TODAY and the AfD was entered 6 minutes after the article was started. See Revision History Gee Whiz!!!! Why not let the article evolve? Sorry to shout, but 6 minutes????Joaquin Murietta 16:38, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Calm down. I think it's impressive that at least some of the crap that gets entered every day is so quickly flagged for richly deserved elimination. Delete as nn, inconsequential. Dottore So 18:15, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
  • OK I will be calm...and I thought about your post, Dottore So, but as a newcomer, my take on this is that a. this article is not crap, it is someone's home town. b. the author is probably a young person c. there are similar articles about unincorporated communities, this one needs time to emerge, and c. to put all this in Wiki Lingo -- Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers and Wikipedia:Welcome anonymous editing. Stuff like delete messages and merger messages are very intimidating to a newcomer. To have them appear in 6 hours, before these kids have a chance to upload their photos and other text, will scare them off.
    • No, it's not someone's hometown. This is not a separate community; it's either a neighbourhood or a housing subdivision within their hometown, which is a city called Dartmouth. Bearcat 19:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia unless it can be shown that the area is a recognized, bounded neighborhood area like the Los Angeles "neighborhoods" and not just a "subdivision." FCYTravis 18:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Okay. The article on Dartmouth has a list of neighbourhoods within the city. Crichton Park has been sitting redlinked on that list for months, equivalent to unquestionably valid articles like Cole Harbour and Eastern Passage. So that means that it's a legitimate neighbourhood. Accordingly, I'm down with the keep side of this, with the proviso that it needs some cleanup. I've already created a temporary redirect from Crichton Park, Nova Scotia to this title; if the article is kept, it needs to be moved to the disambiguated title since I can virtually guarantee that there are other Crichton Parks in the world. Bearcat 19:45, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. This article needs more context. The original article gave little but subsequent edits have provided a better understanding. It looks like it is a small neighbourhood in the former municipality of Dartmouth, and now the Halifax Regional Municipality. If the article can expand beyond a paragraph then I'd say keep, if not it probably belongs in the Dartmouth article. --maclean25 19:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I'd be happy to expand. Again, the article was started less than 13 hours ago. Joaquin Murietta
• Keep, we have thousands of articles on neighbourhoods. - SimonP 01:45, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as per User:Bearcat's comments. Legitimate neighbourhood.

Luigizanasi 03:51, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, as per above, by the way Dartmouth, Nova Scotia is a nice looking article. --Cloveious 05:07, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
  • The "history" section could stand to be wikified a bit, but I agree -- it's nicely done, and has some great photographs. Bearcat 05:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or merge with the city. Neighborhoods are as a rule worthy of inclusion, but if there is not much to say about them they probably don't deserve their own article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:18, 2 October 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.