Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dover Street, Manchester

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. Every article listed here is completely notable, as set out by the arguments below. I wouldn't be adverse to compiling the content into a single article, but reliable sources must be found. Anthøny 22:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Streets in Manchester

Dover Street, Manchester (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) -(View log)

Police Street (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Brazennose Street (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Barton Square (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Aytoun Street (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Articles on a number of largely unnotable streets in streets in Manchester, England. To describe Dover Street as a side street is perhaps making it sound more notable than it really is. It is a street on the campus of the University of Manchester and notability extends to having a pretty dilapadated building known as the "Dover Street Building" together with the back entrances of the Michael Smith Building, the School of Engineering, the School of Chemistry and the Zochonis Building. Barton Square is a short side street of St Ann's Square - street is much less notable than the latter which doesnt have its own article. Whilst I dont think the street deserves an article, Barton Arcade (which sandwiched between the street and Deansgate(Grade II* Listed) may well be of merit for an article. Perhaps this article should be moved there? The article on Police Street even notes its lack of notability. Simarly, Aytoun Street and Brazennose Street are side streets and have little of notability. Pit-yacker 21:03, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

• delete I think that streets itself are not notable, but the articles mentioned do not assert notablity and should be deleted from the wiki. Neozoon 23:01, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete or merge to Transport in Manchester or possibly combine to a single article called Streets in Manchester. There is nothing here to merit an individual article for any of these streets, but an omnibus article may be able to put enough together. Or not. I would not be averse to a complete deletion either. Either solution works. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 23:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless notability can be shown. None of these streets seem to be WP:50k notable. DO NOT combine them into one article on "Streets in Manchester" or merge them to "Transport in Manchester" - it will only encourage additions to it for every street in the city (of which there are several thousand), thus turning it into a travel guide and an indiscriminate collection of information, both of which Wikipedia is not. Grutness...wha? 00:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - They deserve an entry in the A-to-Z, but not in Wikipedia. Totally non-notable. ---- WebHamster 00:41, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete all. there are several notable Mancunian streets but these are not among them. Espresso Addict 17:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete or merge - its a fairly pretty little part of Manchester, but it doesn't really warrant an article of it's own. Merge it with St Ann's Square, or Barton Arcade. Parrot of Doom 14:54, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment Actually, at least Aytoun St and Brazenose St are notable in the Wikipedia sense of having been written about (see Parkinson-Bailey Manchester, or Hartwell et al, Manchester). Police Street was the site of the first arrest following CCTV surveillance in Manchester and the site of the first Emma Somerset store (upmarket women's wear). But do they need articles? Will anyone ever look up these streets in WP? Will any WP article ever gain from linking to these articles? Are these featured articles in the making? Will we miss them? Probably not. Mr Stephen 20:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Noor Aalam 19:29, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Notable Streets of Manchester or something like that. I think they ll be internal links to these streets. -- Magioladitis 16:33, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

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