Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Burnt Bridge, Victoria

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 Merge/Redirect Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 05:49, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Burnt Bridge, Victoria

• Burnt Bridge is not an actual suburb
• ... or so says User: Fleer. My atlas disagrees, pointing to Burnt Bridge (or Burnt-Bridge) being part of the larger suburb of Croydon, Victoria. The presence of 62,000 google hits for "Burnt Bridge"+Melbourne seems to support that. Keep, and fix up if necessary. Grutness...wha? 03:36, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. It isn't a suburb so our article is wrong.Melways Melbourne Street Directory doesn't have a listing for a suburb or locality. Geoscience Australia, say that there is an actual place called Burnt Bridge, Victoria. However, I was interested to see Grutness's reference. However, it is a road or trail in Victoria see [1]. A Google search for Victoria, "Burnt Bridge" - Vancouver (to exclude a place on the island of Victoria off Vancouver) gets 32,900 hits with indications that it is a popular area with mountain bikers see [2]. After all that, I would vote for a Merge with Croydon, Victoria which could do with some expansion. I reserve my position on the Gippsland trail.Capitalistroadster 03:57, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. . I will also see if I can put something about this vote on the Australian Wikipedians page and Wikiproject Melbourne. Capitalistroadster 04:05, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but redirect and merge into Croydon, Victoria. It is a small shopping village within the suburb of Croydon, but not a suburb unto itself. From the Croydon Conservation Society website [3]: "Maroondah is an amalgamation of a wide variety of areas from the business- city type precinct, Ringwood, to a country town hub, Croydon. It also includes Heathmont, Burnt Bridge, McAdam Square, and a variety of smaller business areas". --Cnwb 04:48, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Further to this, the excellent Australian Places Gazetteer website, run by Monash University, states [4]: "Early settlement points in Ringwood East were the Burnt Bridge Hotel on the Maroondah Highway in the 1860s...". this indicates to me that the location was a pre-Ringwood settlement, complete with hotel (although in those days, anywhere with a population of at least 2 would have a hotel). -- Cnwb 05:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Appears not to be a suburb (so half of cuurent article is wrong. Capitalistroadster's references are to a different place (near Lakes Entrance, Victoria. --Scott Davis ^Talk 09:41, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but redirect and merge into Croydon, Victoria. It's not its own suburb, but it is a well known & distinctive area located within the postcode of Croydon, Victoria. I don't have any references, but I grew up nearby. Agnte 10:16, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Such a minor branch of a subject that it doesn't deserve an article: Merge the useful content into a more comprehensive article [Croydon, Victoria] and redirect (or keep) --SPUI (talk) 16:28, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or redirect. In either case, no deletion required. Trollderella 19:39, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect per Cnwb.--Isotope23 19:57, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Burnt Bridge whether it is technically a suburb or not, is considered by most residents in the area as a place. Keep it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by User:Batesy02 (talk • contribs) 8 November 2005
• Keep. Snottygobble | Talk 06:16, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I have added some history to the article, which I found in Muriel McGiven's A History of Croydon, Vol 1. I still think it should be merged. Cnwb 06:18, 12 November 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.