Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boulevard of Broken Dreams (location)


 * 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.  howch e  ng   {chat} 19:37, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Boulevard of Broken Dreams (location)
completely factually innaccurate and entirely useless as an article- states "Blvd of broken dreams" is another name for 42nd street in manhatten, when the term originally came from the original score for Moulin Rouge, set in Paris; states Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the Green Day song about his failure to make it in showbusiness due to his voice, but that clearly isn't what the song is about, and the guy has sold tens of millions of records. As this article isn't based on anything at all it seems useless to keep it; there is nothing to salvage or fix. Heah talk 17:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is a cliche used to mean all kinds of things, and Heah is quite right that its original context has nothing to do with New York. Even if it's occasionally used to mean 42nd street--and I can find no reference to such a use--that would be one of the less common uses, and unverifiable at that.  Chick Bowen 18:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete A more appropriate page for a researcher would be a summary of the references made to BoBD in the media, as it is a term that can clearly be applied to physical locations and emotional states. (aeropagitica) 18:48, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete. Would have merit if it were rewritten to avoid the narrow reference to the Green Day song. The phrase "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is not limited to 42nd Street in NYC and goes back long before 2000s pop culture. It could be  useful article if written to reference all the historical and cultural rerences of the phrase.  Crunch 20:00, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * e.g. a 1933 song by Al Dubin & Harry Warren entitled "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" made famous by Tony Bennett. See &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 20:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * yes, this was the origination of it as far as i can tell, written for Moulin Rouge and a hit for Bennett in 1950. I certainly agree that the article could be useful, but as this version of it contains absolutely nothing useful, verifiable, or that would remain in a fixed up version, i can't see the point of keeping it- until someone fixed it up it would just have to be blanked, which obviously isn't how things are done.  a version referencing all the historical and cultural refereces also wouldn't be "blvd . . . (location)", but rather just "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", sans any qualifier, which is currently a disambig.  --Heah talk 20:21, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this article is junk; too limited in scope. Other voters have proposed a history of the phrase "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" in popular culture.  I support this -- but it belongs in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which would then become a real article instead of a dab. Segv11 (talk/contribs) 22:07, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable, etc. Stifle 00:09, 16 January 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.