Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/East Boulevard


 * 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. Nowhere in our guidelines is it written that being a "major artery road of a major city" according to Google Maps guarantees notability. And WP:STREET is just a rule of thumb that doesn't specify which streets are notable. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 10:30, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

East Boulevard

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Non-notable local street (appears to fail GNG). Ks0stm (T•C•G) 17:51, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  -- Ks0stm (T•C•G) 19:02, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alabama-related deletion discussions.  -- Ks0stm (T•C•G) 19:02, 3 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - I can't see anything that would be useful in a locality article either. Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:04, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Looking at G-maps, this appears to be a major artery road of a major city that includes sections of multiple numbered highways including U.S. Route 80, U.S. Route 231 and Alabama State Route 53. --Oakshade (talk) 20:16, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Question I can accept that US highways have their own article, sure. That makes sense. But this is just a local road name for the same highway isn't it? Start going down that route and all of a sudden you have the potential for massive duplication - shouldn't we deal with this in either the locality article or on the major route article? In either (or both) cases it's not going to amount to more than a sentence or two of notable information in most cases is it? I just don't see how this road justifies an article all to itself. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:39, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Those are in fact multiple highways that branch out into multiple different directions but converge for this stretch. In this case you are correct as long stretches of the continuous road have different name designations, East Road and Eastern Road for example.  I'm okay with merging Eastern Boulevard (Alabama) into this one and containing content of the former.--Oakshade (talk) 21:41, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Can't find any coverage of this road that isn't an address. The one passing mention of it I saw said it's also known as "the bypass" locally, but I couldn't find any coverage of that either. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 23:20, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete seems like this street is in Cleveland, from google searching... clearly not this street. 64.229.100.153 (talk) 05:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * huh? --Oakshade (talk) 05:25, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Baseball   Watcher  23:53, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete. While numbered routes have consensus notability by themselves, named streets on which they travel through a particular geographic area do not appear to automatically inherit said notability. I see no evidence of standalone notability of this particular stretch of pavement to satisfy WP:GNG. -- Kinu  t/c 19:30, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep, probably. Per WP:STREET, Montgomery is entitled to 4 or 5 street article (for the city) or nine (for the metro area). Is East Boulevard one of the four or five most notable streets in Montgomery (or nine for the area)? Maybe. If not, it's probably close. The article says that it's a "major arterial road". The notable entity Winton M. Blount Cultural Park is located on the street. It's a major commercial street. It's heavily traveled. The Eastdale Mall is on it. It seems to be an important part of the fabric of Montgomery, which is a large (second largest in Alabama) and historically significant regional center. I don't see the gain in removing an article about it. Full disclosure, though: I like street articles and have written a couple myself. Herostratus (talk) 22:07, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete No evidence of notability in cultural, infrastructure or other terms.  If other articles had referenced this entry, it might have been worth keeping.  However, as a stand-alone article with no context, it fails WP:NOTE and I do not see another compelling reason to keep it around.  Ebikeguy (talk) 00:28, 17 May 2011 (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.