Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Great Portland 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. Withdrawn. Actually, I'm here chasing socks of which a few are exhibited for your delectation below. -Splash - tk 21:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great Portland Street

Delete street with no assertion of significance. Deprodded says it's got its own tube station. Big whoops... so do Ave. H, Ave. N, Ave. P, Ave. U, and Ave. X in Brooklyn, New York. And those are a lot longer than Great Portland Street. (OT: I had actually lived on that street for a semester in college!)- CrazyRussian talk/email 14:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Weak keep Delete.Although I don't see any reason to keep it, it seems from the Category:Streets in London that some streets are inherently notable by being in London. Unless you argue for the deletion of most of these and the category I can't see that you can single this one out. Yomangani 14:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Oh no, there is no inherent notability from being in London. Your argument from status quo is unpersuasive and if I were closing this AfD, I would discount it. To answer your question, I went through about half the list and sniped approx. eight street articles. This deletion was challenged - others remain on {{prod}}. I've done previous raid on NYC and Moscow streets. - CrazyRussian talk/email 14:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
      • Ok,I wasn't really making an argument to keep, I just didn't bother checking for {{prod}}. Pure laziness. Delete with nukular fire. Yomangani 15:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Will we have every street in the world on here, along with every local televison reporter, college professor, advertising newspaper, etc.? I hope not. Love, Travel Plaza Babes 15:55, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep There seem to be quite a few notable aspects. Home of the Central Synagogue (the foundation stone of which was laid by Baron Lionel de Rothschild); Boswell lived here when he wrote his "Life of Johnson"; the first mobile phone signals were transmitted from one room to another in a house on the street; BAFTA were here for a while; H.G. Wells mentions it in the "The Invisible Man" etc Dlyons493 Talk 17:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Information on streets is available elsewhere such as Google Maps James68 18:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - This is a notable street in London. See the article, obviously, for those aspects. CoolGuy 17:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I am about to try a test. I don't know yet how it will turn out. This is simply a statement of how I am going to decide how to cast my vote. I am going to search Google Books to see whether there are any mentions at all of Great Portland Street in London. If there are any, I'll vote keep, otherwise delete. Dpbsmith (talk) 19:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Scads of hits. Mostly just in the context of addresses, but the very first is a reference to it in H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man [1]. Dpbsmith (talk) 19:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC) Oh, I see Dlyons mentioned that already. P. S. Other references... like these in full view books (which tend to be pre-1923 public domain works...)[2]... certainly give me the impression that Great Portland Street is familiar to Londoners and conveys something-or-other. Here's one where somebody mentions it on their tombstone. Is it a sort of marker for a neighborhood as well as just being a street name? Dpbsmith (talk) 19:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment It's in Vickers, Graham (2001). London's 50 Outstanding Classical Music Landmarks. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0711986762. p. 68; see that page image for the reasons Vickers includes it. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. One of London's more notable streets. As for comparison with Ave. H, Ave. N, etc, since it is a major link between two of London's main streets a better comparison might be with 23rd Street (Manhattan), 42nd Street (Manhattan), or Central Park South - all of which seem to have articles, as do many of NY's other main cross-streets.Vickers presumably mentions it as the site of the Philharmonic Hall - it's also the site of London's (and the UK's) main synagogue. Grutness...wha? 01:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
No, the Vickers book mentions it for (rather feeble IMHO) connections with Mendelssohn and Carl Maria von Weber. The former stayed there a few times, the latter died there. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:03, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete It is a street. Being in London does not make it notable. Kramden4700 02:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, definitely seems verifiable enough. JYolkowski // talk 02:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Seems sufficiently notable to merit keeping. --technopilgrim 21:34, 28 July 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.