Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allen Street

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 delete all. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 00:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allen Street

A mass nomination for the streets of Penn State University. These streets are non notable outside the university: some of them have been nominated for merging, and while I have no reason to oppose a merge of info (if people want that info in the main article, be my guest), I would oppose the keeping of the generic "allen street" as a redirect to Penn State University. I don't oppose the inclusion of major, famous streets (highways, major streets in big cities, Monopoly streets, ... ) but the inclusion of every street of a University campus is overkill. I'll add the other related articles below Fram 10:54, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Atherton Street
• Beaver Avenue
• Bigler Road
• Burrowes Road
• Calder Way
• College Avenue
• Curtin Road
• Garner Street
• Park Avenue (State College)
• Pollock Road
• Pugh Street
• Shortlidge Road
• University Drive

These are the articles in the category Roads in State College.

Also added:

• Downtown State College

11:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I think you are on to a loser here. Pretty-well every road in the USA appears to be on Wikipedia, even if it's entry is something like highway X is Z miles long. The precident seems to be set, so I think you're going to have to live with this little lot. Markb 13:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I think there is quite a difference between a highway and a campus road. And I wonder if e.g. any other road in Centre County, Pennsylvania (excluding highways) has been included in Wikipedia yet, or if any other similar roads to these ones have survived any AfD yet. I suer haven't seen such precedent yet. Fram 13:39, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Wikipedia is not Google maps. Nice pictures, though. Add them to a gallery on the university's article. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 13:42, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, Wikipedia is not a road atlas, and it'd suck at it if we tried (in current form). Per the usual standards, it's not obvious why any of these roads are notable by themselves, nor is it obvious how we could write more than 2-5 sentences of non-crufty information about each one before getting hopelessly mired in inanity. Yeah, I'm probably wandering off into my own opinion here. My Alt Account 17:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Move all these articles to Penn State University/xxx, there's precedent for moving streetname into subarticles of their location. There's definitely more than one "Calder Way" out there. --AlexWCovington (talk) 01:22, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Article subpages are not allowed, see Wikipedia:Subpages. An article streets of Penn State University could be a solution if people think it is necessary to have this information Fram 05:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

• Move all of these into one article as per Fram's suggestion above; as a State Collegian, I myself find it unnecessary to have an article for each of this town's streets. However, because some of the streets have interesting stories, I would like to see them all collected on one article, perhaps Streets of State College (as most of the streets are not within PSU itself). I'll try to add a few blurbs (such as streets' histories and name origins) to each section. Additionally, in the roads section of the infrastructure for State College, the highways can be left alone, and the list roads can be replaced with a link to Streets of State College. --Ratiocinate 16:48, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per previous comments. Vegaswikian 23:39, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; there was a batch of road articles like these about roads in Norfolk, Virginia that were pretty much all deleted a few months ago. Mangojuice^talk 16:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all. Some streets are notable. These aren't. -- Necrothesp 00:07, 21 September 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.