Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midland Avenue


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The result was   delete. X clamation point  03:29, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Midland Avenue

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Street in Scarborough, Ontario that does not establish notablility. Attempted to establish notability, but I decided to let others decide if it is notable or not. This article was deleted before. See also Articles for deletion/Birchmount Road for another equally non-notable Scarborough street. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 20:19, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no indication of notability; Wikipedia is not a directory. JohnCD (talk) 20:38, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - I realize that personal attestation is not considered reliable, but I have driven the length of the street, and driven it quite often, and about the only thing distinguishing Midland Avenue from most other streets might be that the Scarborough RT (TTC) has the Midland (TTC) station on this street. In case there is some historical significance, I had a go at Google Books.  This seems to indicate that it used to be a muddy side road.  This might be considered to impart some notability.  But I would say that it would be more of a mention in an article about the history of Italian immigration to the Toronto area than justifying an article on Midland Avenue.  With only this little information being turned up, there is insufficient evidence for notability.-- Whpq (talk) 21:43, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree, since most arterial roads, notable or not notable, began as mud roads. Yonge Street began as a mud road. Vaughan Road also began as a mud road. Though not notable, Kirby Road began as a mud road. Midland Avenue is slightly more notable than Kirby Road, but not notable enough to have its own article, unlike Vaughan Road, which has a long and significant history. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - It seems to be part of an attempt to have articles on all the concession roads in Toronto (or maybe all the Highway 401 exits in Toronto...), but no source I can say tells me that Midland is on any concession (and neither is Brimley Road - in fact my sources say that there are no concessions between Kennedy and McCowan). Even Birchmount (sources differ on whether it was a concession) is more notable since it extends into Markham (that's still iffy for me as to whether that says in Wikipedia, and that a source said that there are no concessions between Warden and Kennedy).  I'm not from Toronto, but in the short time I've lived there, I know that there should be a concession between Markham Road and Morningside Avenue, and there's no article on that here... kelvSYC (talk) 05:20, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


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