Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Food street


 * 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. The article is unsourced. Those arguing for "keep" ignore the WP:BURDEN aspect of WP:V: you need to provide references now if you want to keep this content.  Sandstein  20:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Food street

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No sources provided, none found. Lots of POV and OR, nothing verifiable. Mdsummermsw (talk) 13:03, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete pretty much nonsense. "In some places, you can't eat, except on a Food Street."  Sure. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  14:01, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - It appears that much of the nonsense was added with this edit. I have since removed it. I'm leaning towards a keep because, without the nonsense, the article appears to be a small (if unreferenced) list of streets known as "food streets".  TN ‑  X   - Man  14:50, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment While I agree that the later text appears to be one user's addition, the remaining list still suffers considerably. It is unreferenced. I've repeatedly searched for some sort of reliable source using the term "food street" and have come up empty. Looking back on the history of the article, it seems to have originally been an article on the concept in Pakistan. This article became Food Street, Gawalmandi, while Food street became a redirect there. Now Food Street, Gawalmandi is still sourceless, but Food street is a list of 4 streets is Australia, one in Hong Kong, one in India, one in the U.S. and 3 in Pakistan. Outside of Pakistan, we only have Nicollet Avenue as a stand alone article. Said article refers to part of that street as "Eat Street". Pakistan's 3 would-be Food Streets are Boat Basin (added to this article when it was created), Burns Road (the article existed for two years before it became a Food Street on 9 Oct 06) and, of course Food Street, Gawalmandi. It seems "Food street" isn't a concept, but "Food Street" is a street in Gawalmandi. Places like it are the "Food Street" of (whereever) much like, say, Las Vegas is the Monte Carlo of Nevada (or the armpit of the West, IMHO). All that in mind, I think "Food street" should redirect to Food Street, Gawalmandi. - Mdsummermsw (talk) 16:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's not even discussion or even evidence of the existence of the term, let alone that it's being used or is being applied to the listed streets. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 01:04, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes and no. Mdsummermsw is right inasmuch as it doesn't seem that all of these streets around the world are linked under some umbrella concept of "food streets".  However, xe is wrong inasmuch as this is a valid concept in Pakistan, as pointed out on the article's talk page in 2007.  The problem with this article appears to be that Wikpedia editors have tried to globalize and westernize a concept that isn't global, and isn't Western.  There are "food streets" in Pakistan.  There's the Melody Food Street in Islamabad (which this article doesn't even mention), there's Burns Road in Karachi (as sourced by this and this), and there's the food street near Ghantar Ghar in Peshawar.  There's actually a second one in Lahore, at Anarkali. If you want to read an article documenting this Pakistani phenomenon, as a proper concept in its own right not just as an attributive appellation, read this article in the Daily Times, which touches upon some of the social aspects of food streets, and this article, also from the Times. This article needs a good Kerrrzappp!, but that's a matter of editing rather than deletion.  Does anyone feel up to the challenge? Uncle G (talk) 14:14, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I see sufficient proof from ghits, and the references given above, that the term 'food street' is in use, applies to a number of different places in different countries, and is legit enough to consider.  There's not much to explain about the concept, true, but there's an equivalent article on Food court which is comparable.  The article needs work.  But don't we all.  --Lockley (talk) 16:34, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Although the article definitely needs sources, particularly for describing a particular street as a long food court of sorts, it's a legitimate topic; and like anything involving the tourist industry, very easy to confirm with verifiable sources.  It's more common in Asian countries than in the Western world for a thoroughfare in town to be referred to as the "Food Street" as capitalized.  Editors can start here  and season this article to suit their tastes. Mandsford (talk) 17:54, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep And clean-up including expanding the lede. -- Banj e  b oi   00:50, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 22:46, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete no sources, no obvious notability and no sense this term is in general use.Bali ultimate (talk) 00:09, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


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