Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pizza Corner

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.

I am unpersuaded by the unsupported claim that an encyclopedia article sourced to reliable, reputable publications may be written on the subject of the "Pizza Corner" of Halifax. Besides, surely such monikers exist for a thousand other little spots—alone reason enough to approach any such write-up with considerable caution. Hence, delete. Regards —Encephalon 10:53, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pizza Corner

0 for 2. Firstly, the intersection in Nova Scotia: there's little reference to it that can be found quickly, but even if there were, are intersections of streets inherently notable, unless there's a connotation of a neighborhood, like Dupont Circle. But no, I doubt anyone is saying "Oh, yeah, I live in Pizza Corner". Secondly, the pizza place in N. Dakota: I did see something of it on google, but I find it hard to believe it's notable outside of its neighborhood, as well. Kmaguir1 07:51, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Delete It's a brand label; probably not noteable; must be nationwide product, not local product. User:Yy-bo 17:15, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Pizza Corner is a well-known landmark in the Halifax area. A Google search for "pizza corner" +halifax turns up 1400 hits, more than Armdale Rotary (another famous local intersection). The city has even recognized the name: [1] The North Dakota product is too obscure to me, though if someone from North Dakota chimed in as to how well-known the brand name is there, I'll change my mind. And for what it's worth, the first Ghit for "Pizza Corner" is a 36-location restaurant chain in India. Kirjtc2 21:18, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

That's ridiculous. Look, the search didn't pick up any substantial results for Pizza Corner as the one in Nova Scotia--the North Dakota one actually did better in term of google. Of course, we know that's not dispositive, but this is just not notable apart from this. An intersection has to actually be a landmark, or notable as a neighborhood, like Dupont Circle. The link you gave me shows the lack of notability--even they refer to it as "so-called pizza corner"--it's disingenous to call that "recognition", at least as qualifies on a global level. Look, it's just a corner in a city. That's not a notable. If it were a neighborhood, or an actual landmark, it'd be a different thing. In fact, your document states that the area is becoming an "eyesore", which argues strongly against your contention that it's a "landmark", as few intersections are--it could conceivably still be a notable neighborhood, but there's no evidence of that in any of the google searches, not on the page you gave me, really nowhere. I'd suggest you look at the Wikipedia notability guidelines, and reconsider your opinion.-Kmaguir1 22:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

First off, I point to the RFC currently against you for, among other things, incivility. Secondly, if you actually looked at the Google hits for "pizza corner" +halifax, you will notice many references to it that identify it as a local cultural reference point, more so than any other intersection in downtown Halifax, if not the whole city. There's no neighborhood called "pizza corner", but it is universally used as a reference point for other things in town. People would not say "it's in Pizza Corner" (unless it's actually on there), but would just as much say "it's near Pizza Corner". Just because it's an "eyesore" (which, I'll admit, it is) does not make it any less of a landmark. Kirjtc2 02:56, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Your definition of a landmark as that by which all other places are differentiated, like "It's near Pizza Corner", is not the proper definition of a landmark--it hasn't been designated as such, as a landmark, by anyone. When it does, you can recreate the article. Until then, there's not a scrap of information that gives this notability. It falls short on the roads criterion, falls short on the intersection notability criterion, and it's not a landmark, on its face. Reference points are not meant for wikipedia, either--should the "third stop sign after Mitchell St." be on Wikipedia? Also, on the RfC, address your comments to the item in question, Pizza Corner, and not on me--it's entirely irrelevant.-Kmaguir1 03:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Delete - The article itself makes no claim to notability, and a street corner having three pizza shops on it certainly doesn't make that intersection notable. Now if an elephant had fallen from the sky and landed on the intersection.... that'd be a whole other story. Seriously though, so NN and unencyclopedic it's amazing. -- pm_shef 03:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Being locally famous does not automatically make the intersection notable. Resolute 04:35, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's no Portage and Main and not a notable or encyclopedic "place". Smacks of something made up in Halifax one day. Agent 86 23:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Kirjtc2. --Usgnus 06:06, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per my nom.-Kmaguir1 20:34, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment You cannot "vote" twice - your nomination is your delete "vote". Agent 86 17:09, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, notable, the term is often used in local newspapers. Well-known landmark. Sprocket 00:22, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Resolute; local landmark for directions do not a notable landmark make. KillerChihuahua^?!? 01:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• Explosive Delete I recommend explosive deletion per nom. Shazbot85^Talk 01:38, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Pizza Corner is a well-known landmark in the Halifax area.--Bill 19:43, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. —Encephalon 10:35, 11 September 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.