Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curzon Street

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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 keep. ¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 00:54, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Curzon Street

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As with everything else I'm dredging up whilst cleaning up Category:Streets in London, sending it to AfD instead of prodding as named geographic locations are always contentious. Again, I can't see any reason this street is special enough to warrant its own article — iridescent (talk to me!) 22:07, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Doesn't look to be a really major notable street.--JForget 01:20, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
The improvements in the article with especially some historical bits, forces me to change it to Keep.--JForget 02:05, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per lack of notability. It'll be directory level to have pages for every street out there Corpx 05:33, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete - just misses the trailer for notability -- Roleplayer 00:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
    Change vote to strong keep following rewrite. -- Roleplayer 21:59, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete although I love Dorian Grey and Oscar Wilde. Bearian 02:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Change to Keep on the basis of changes to improve the article to the Heyman standard. Bearian 22:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • commentI am a little puzzled about how to deal with the nomination of the many articles. quite possibly they are in fact not notable, but i would like the time to be able to check, and I do not see how anyone can be reasonably expected to do them all in the few days provided. DGG (talk) 05:59, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
  • comment This street had an MI5 HQ too, and other stuff. Secretlondon 09:24, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - It's a main street in the historic Mayfair. It was at Curzon Place where Keith Moon and Mama Cass died in Harry Nilsson's now infamous flat. --Oakshade 19:43, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong keep — this is a very notable street in central London. User:Iridescent seems to be attempting to delete a number of historic London streets without checking on their historic importance. I believe this and other cases are a case of WP:SOFIXIT. I would humbly suggest more effort on improving stub articles like this would be more worthwhile and beneficial for Wikipedia than being summarily deleted without research. There is plenty on Wikipedia that is much less noteworthy than most streets of any size in central London. Similar London streets that have been unsuccessfully been put up for deletion in the past include Dover Street and Albemarle Street. These are developed significantly through contributions. This and other stub articles for central London streets (a large number of which are notable due to the historic nature of central London) could easily do the same if not deleted. — Jonathan Bowen 22:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Changing to Keep following expansion by Roleplayer — iridescent (talk to me!) 22:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Good job Roleplayer on improving the article — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 22:14, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as improved. I think the other articles could similarly be improved if time were given. These AfDs were premature. DGG (talk) 23:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as improved, thanks to Roleplayer. I too believe, with Jonathan Bowen and DGG, that way too many improvable articles are unnecessarily and/or prematurely nominated for deletion (across all of WP). The only aspect of an article that absolutely can't be improved is intrinsic non-notability. All else is fixable. Kudos to those that changed their recommendation to keep. — Becksguy 01:25, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep much better now. Secretlondon 09:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as notability demonstrated by independent references. --Gavin Collins 10:18, 5 September 2007 (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.