Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paris streets-list

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:27, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paris streets-list

Several reasons. Do we really need a street listing? Wikipedia is not a directory of any sort. Also, the page is over 300K. Just a pointless list. Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 10:36, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, as per nominator. All (except one) are red links anyway. «LordViD» 11:16, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment that's partly a function of the naming system. Just to emphasise I've edited Rue de Rivoli to point to the pre-existing article. Dlyons493 Talk 11:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
    • It looks like this will be a no consensus. If it is, please rename the article "List of streets in Paris, France" to match the format of other list articles. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 14:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete yet another non-encyclopaedic list. --Daveb 11:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Nice list, could be useful. -- JJay 19:40, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Changing only because list has now been redone, making this version redundant. -- JJay 21:15, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• Changing back to Keep, as other lists have now been nominated. Suggest everyone return to their original votes. -- JJay 04:08, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• Strong keep. This has obvious utility in a number of areas of work. Sjc 19:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC) Delete now refactor is done, much better. Sjc 14:44, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Honestly if this is kept, we should just check notability out the door. It's so big that it literally crashes my FireFox. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 21:33, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Metropolitan90 22:50, 17 December 2005

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• Strong delete Lets nip this idea in the bud right now - otherwise every city will want a similar list Jameswilson 01:01, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Every city is not Paris. Delete voters should know that this is part of wikipedia's Portal:Paris project. -- JJay 01:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• JJay, I still dont see it frankly. List of noteworthy hotels, museums, parks, streets, whatever, but not each and every hotel, museum, park or street. Otherwise youre saying the notability criterion can be ignored just because its a project. Jameswilson 01:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• I see your point, but the list seems very useful + many of the streets would make good articles, or tie into existing articles. Maybe it could go into the travel section.-- JJay 02:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Userfy, as ThePromenader said he had compiled it for his own use. TimBentley 02:35, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Rewrite Needs breakdown e.g. by arrondissement. Only justified for the handful of global cities. If not reduced in size to standard wiki recommendations during Afd then delete it. Delete I've broken the original down into sublists - see discussion page. Dlyons493 Talk 02:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• How would breaking it down by arrondissement make it smaller, since many of these streets run through multiple arrondissements? -- JJay 02:49, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• In a way I feel bad voting for the deletion of something that must have taken a lot of work to produce but I can just see it spreading. Diyons493 says its only justified for a handful of world cities, but there are at least twenty cities bigger than Paris, and maybe thirty-plus, depending on what measure you take. so you'd have no reason not to allow those for a start. Jameswilson 03:06, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I meant global city in the sense of Global city rather than mere size. Personally I'd stop at Alpha 12 point but a case could be made for the 10 pointers. Wiki is not paper to coin a phrase. Dlyons493 Talk 11:12, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. WP:NOT a directory. Pilatus 03:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Utterly useless list, a undigested data dump of a Paris street atlas' index, a sea of red links that will never, ever be blue. A list of famous streets -- ones which have or deserve articles -- yes, but not this bloated, unnavigable mess. --Calton | Talk 04:05, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete umaintainable, unnavigable, and violates WP:NOT. Gateman1997 21:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per nominator redstucco 09:35, 21 December 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.