Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Main Streets


 * 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. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 04:24, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

List of Main Streets

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Apologies for tagging a list which is marked as 'still in the middle of expansion'. But my feeling is that this whole concept is just not going to work. If complete (or even a quarter complete!), this list would have tens of thousands of links, almost all red. A far better way of finding an article on any given Main Street will be simply to insert this into the 'search' box. Kim Dent-Brown  (Talk)  21:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. I agree, there're way too many Main Streets out there for this list to ever be even 10% complete. I can think of at least five or six within my own county, and I live in the boonnies. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 21:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment:Wikipedia is a work in progress. Wikipedia will never be 10% complete as a whole.Sebwite (talk) 16:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Strong Delete-I agree with the nomination and especially with the Ten Pound Hammer-- T r U C o 9 31 1 22:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * semi-strong delete unnecessary navigation page for unneccesary articles about streets in places like "Reisterstown, Maryland" Looks like someone is working on a Main Street Project of some sort, and they're going the wrong way.  Mandsford (talk) 23:43, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep: This article has the Underconstruction tag. Nominating such an article for deletion, in itself, is usually a violation of Wikipedia's policies. I never intended for this to be a complete list of every single Main Street around the world, only those that are notable, by that I mean those that already have Wikipedia articles about themselves or larger numbered roads that they are a part of. Such a list does indeed meet Wikipedia's guidelines for inclusion, because it is a list linking to other articles.Sebwite (talk) 01:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. I was reluctant to AfD this when I saw the template (hence my apology above). I went ahead because of the opinion that, however much work went into the list its concept was fatally flawed and no amount of editing work could redeem it. Of course, I may be wrong in my opinion and if I am the consensus will go against me! But it seemed more considerate to AfD it now, rather than wait for you to put lots of work in and then AfD it. By the way, I could not find any policy against AfD'ing an article with this template: you are quite free to continue editing the article while we discuss it, and should do so if you think it will help the case for retention. Best wishes - Kim Dent-Brown   (Talk)  16:27, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Response This list is a work in progress that is not intended to be completed in one day. The list is not of every single street called Main Street in the world, but only those that A.) have existing Wikipedia articles with that title themselves (e.g. Main Street (Hamilton, Ontario)), or B.) are part of a numbered route that has a Wikipedia article. The purpose of the page is to list these articles in an organized place where it would be easy to find them based on geography, just like so many lists of other things are listed. For example, one who wants to find Main Street in Hamilton, Ontario would first look for Canada, then Ontario, then Hamilton. This page does not need to be completed overnight either - Wikipedia is a work in progress. Regardless of what others say in this discussion, this list is perfectly acceptable under Wikipedia's guidelines. It is an organized list of other Wikipedia articles, not indiscriminate information. As for the idea of just entering "Main Street" and hitting Search, that is a much less efficient way of finding such articles. The articles come up in a disorganized, computer-generated order that most humans cannot decipher, and it is anyone's guess if the article one is looking for will be on page 1 or page 1347. I used this feature to find some of the articles I listed, but mostly, I am searching for various Main Streets using maps and studying numbered routes, and hoping that others will contribute too.Sebwite (talk) 16:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Almost every town in an English-speaking country has a Main Street. This is not needed as an aid to Wikipedia navigation. I hope this is not a prelude to a list of "High Streets," "Central Streets," "Elm Streets" etc. Edison (talk) 01:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment It would be nice if we could all put the "under construction" tag on our articles and leave it there to make them deletion proof. You can always put this on your user page if you want to experiment.  For those of you who were wondering why there was an article about Main Street in Reistertown, Maryland, there isn't.  It's a link to Maryland Route 140, as is Main Street in Westminster, Maryland.  The definition of notable given is part of a numbered route that has its own article.  If you stop and think about it, you're talking about a bigger undertaking than I think you have time for -- looking at each town, seeing if it has a Main Street, then seeing whether there's an article you can link it to.   Just trying to do that with Maryland alone would take a long time, then there's Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, etc. etc. etc.  You're thinking too large.  Mandsford (talk) 03:39, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information --Nick Dowling (talk) 07:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - it's not a list of Main Streets, but a list of Main Street articles on Wikipedia, and thus a navigation aid. The Transhumanist (talk) 07:26, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - it's a disambiguation page, which we already have. The Transhumanist  22:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge into Main Street (disambiguation). --Nobunaga24 (talk) 07:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment I had originally thought of using the Main Street (disambiguation) page to list these. I then found that this page lists other things that are titled "Main Street," such as books as songs, and if 100 streets are listed on this page together with just a dozen other things, the list of streets would be too overpowering for the other things. There are other street names for which use of the disambiguation page does work, such as Pennsylvania Avenue (disambiguation) (which I created as such), but with the name Main Street being so common, I felt that it was necessary not just to have a separate page listing them, but perhaps eventually to have a separate one for each continent or large country.Sebwite (talk) 16:08, 3 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete This is trivial information.  These streets have nothing in common, except they contain the adjective(?) main. Corpx (talk) 08:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Page is redundant to Main Street (disambiguation).-h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 11:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to Main Street (disambiguation). I do not believe that pages under construction should be immune to deletion.  If there is no real chance that an article will remain on Wikipedia after completion, then the article should be deleted before editors waste any time on it.  However, in this situation, the article in question contains information that is not in the disambiguation article, so a merge is appropriate.  The list article's creator should be encouraged to improve the disambiguation article.--FreeKresge (talk) 17:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete possibly move anything into Main Street (disambiguation) that is not already there.MilborneOne (talk) 19:08, 1 February 2008 (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.