Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakeshore Road


 * 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 keep. (non-admin closure) Nördic   Nightfury  06:59, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Lakeshore Road

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Poorly sourced article about a municipal arterial road in a suburban city (memo to Ontarians: this is Lakeshore-Mississauga, not Lakeshore-Toronto), whose only discernible claims of notability per our notability standard for roads are that it happens to be (a) the direct continuation of a road with the same name in the next city over (see "memo to Ontarians" above), and (b) formerly part of a defunct provincial highway. Neither of these are claims of notability that guarantee a road a Wikipedia article in and of themselves, and the sourcing here isn't helping to get it over WP:GNG: the references are almost entirely to unreliable self-published roadgeek hobbyist websites and/or primary sources such as maps and local historical societies -- and the few sources that are actually reliable ones are not about this road, but just glancingly verify its existence in the "part of a longer entity" contexts I pointed out above. This is simply not what it takes to get the road a standalone article as a separate topic from Ontario Highway 2. Bearcat (talk) 05:15, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 05:17, 21 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Weak delete/transwiki. Regional history is cool, but this seems to be WP:OR. No in-depth coverage. I'd suggest transwiki to http://canada.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page if possible. Or maybe wikivoyage can accept such content - it doesn't care about references, and this is 'touristy'. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:33, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   &#9742;   &#9998;  19:39, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   11:01, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lakeshore Road doesn't run just though Mississauga; it runs all the way to Burlington, and also doesn't technically have the same name. Nor is it completely synonymous with Highway 2, as part of it was Hwy. 8. Also, the history and former street railway service along it makes it well beyond the scope of the Ontario Highway 2 article. Kingston Road is also a former part of Hwy. 2, and it hasn't been nominated for deletion. If users think the article isn't worthy of its own article, maybe it could be merged with the Lake Shore Boulevard article. --User:Transportfan70
 * Running through two suburban municipalities is not, in and of itself, a stronger notability claim than running through just one — and "was part of two highways" isn't a stronger notability claim than "was part of one highway" either. What gets a road into Wikipedia is reliable sourcing that supports a reason why it would qualify for an article. And while Kingston Road certainly has a problematic and not especially well-sourced article as well, you need to be cautious about WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS arguments: that article is not proof that this article needs to be kept, but rather it may well be the case that Kingston Road needs to be deleted too. Bearcat (talk) 23:55, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep There is a lot of information in the article. If the road was formerly part of a highway, it may have historical significance and it would be a pity to delete so much information the road. It says in this book https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Xt0d-ljV0fAC&pg=PA77&dq=Lakeshore+Road+ontario that is was part of the main street of a town. A lot of hard work has been poured into the article. It would help to preserve it.--DreamLinker (talk) 22:03, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Winged Blades Godric  06:06, 7 July 2017 (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.