Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Montreal night life

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. Yamamoto Ichiro (山本一郎)(会話) 04:06, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Montreal night life

Montreal night life (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Wikipedia is not a travel guide. Clarityfiend 04:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete if sources are not provided, though I'll at least give this article credit for providing some attempt at a historical perspective. FrozenPurpleCube 05:22, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Surely there are some local newspapers or magazines that could be cited in support of this article. This page has a blank talk page, and no indication that anyone has sought to address the claims elsewhere. The page strikes me as fairly scrupulously trying to avoid being a "travel guide"; it gives no addresses, only general descriptions of the character of various neighbourhoods. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Weak keep, it needs sources. Corvus cornix 17:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete travel guide masquerading as encyclopedia content; the selection of the venues, genres, etc. seems entirely OR and POV. Don't most of Montreal's population spend their "night life" in front of the tv and in bed, like everywhere else, except in the context of a travel guide? Carlossuarez46 18:52, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete I see this type of article as inviting all kinds of WP:ILIKEIT contributions. I think it is a good attempt to discuss a major part of what could be a Montreal Culture article. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:02, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, per nomination.--Svetovid 20:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Almost all articles about features of places could be considered "travel guide"--the difference is that the travel guide is more current and practical than an article of this sort can be. As pointed out above, the essence of a travel guide is precisely phone numbers and address and hours and prices. DGG

CommentI would say the essence of a travel guide is not phone numbers, addresses and the like (though that alone is a problem), but rather the lack of a broader perspective on the subject. Instead, there's a focus on individual places and a feeling of "this is the place to go" rather than "this was what happened here" . FrozenPurpleCube 02:06, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, Respectfully, how is this not a travel guide? Essentially: Visit Montreal where you can drink at 18 and enjoy your time in the strip club capital of Canada. Even present locations of the gay nightclubs and strip clubs are merely temporal locational references, not encyclopaedic references. Granted, Montreal is much more European in nature than perhaps Houston (Houston Nightlife) and sitting at home in front of the TV likely does not hold the same attraction that some have understandably queried in regard to night life articles in general. Pever 13:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, it is a travel guide, there are other sites on the web where this content would fit much better. Anyway, if we allow articles of this type, we will have to allow countless "City X night life" articles, something I would rather not see. Balcer 00:47, 16 June 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.