Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albert Street (Ottawa)


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 07:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Albert Street (Ottawa)

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Just an average road in Ottawa, a WP:BEFORE turned up only a single source,. Hasn't cited any sources since 2009 and receives minimal views. No reason to believe it passes WP:GNG. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 00:05, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete Fails WP:GNG and content doesn't cite any sources. Abishe (talk) 09:06, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No signs of notability, haven't found any coverage. Less Unless (talk) 13:19, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - No notability for this street. Article has been unsourced for a while because of the lack of significant coverage. 🌺Kori🌺  - ( @ ) 15:32, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. It is one of the oldest streets in the city, and is one of the city's numbered roads (equivalent to a regional or county highway). It also was up until recently part of the city's rapid bus system. However, it's not exactly a major thoroughfare. Also, I have found a lot of coverage. Searching for '"Albert Street" Ottawa' or '"Albert St" Ottawa' at newspapers.com gets hundreds of thousands of search results.-- Earl Andrew - talk 16:50, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * We don't just count the number of search results a thing has as a notability claim in and of itself — simply counting the number of hits obscures the major and important distinction between notability-supporting coverage about the street in real media, glancing namechecks of the street's existence in coverage of other things, primary source directories and completely irrelevant hits on the mailing addresses of businesses in their contact information. So just stating the number of search results you found is not a notability argument — you have to sift through the search results you found, and select specific hits that actually represent notability-supporting coverage about the street in reliable sources. Bearcat (talk) 20:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete, unless somebody can actually find some evidence of notability-supporting reliable source coverage. Streets are not automatically accepted as notable enough for Wikipedia articles just because they're old, or arterial, or numbered, or have transit routes on them — the notability test for street requires the ability to reliably source some genuinely substantive context for the street's political, social, historical or cultural significance. But this literally just describes the road's geography and cites no sources for that, which is not how you make a road notable enough for inclusion here. Bearcat (talk) 20:35, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


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