Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/North Dakota Avenue (Washington, D.C.)


 * 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   redirect to List of state-named roadways in Washington, D.C.. Since the content of the original articles is used in this list, deletion is not an option because the history needs to remain for licencing reasons. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 08:47, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

North Dakota Avenue (Washington, D.C.)

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Non-notable street without sources. Note: previously prodded. —D. Monack talk 19:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related page for the same reason:


 * Comment The prod on ND Ave was removed with the suggestion that these two pages be merged. This is a bad idea. First, because these two streets have little in common with each other, second because even a merged page would have nothing to say beyond a geographic description of their routes. Wikipedia isn't an atlas or a road map. —D. Monack talk 19:52, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

*Keep per NE2. --Rschen7754 (T C) 20:48, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Among the dry statistics, there appears to be enough information in to write a decent article. --NE2 20:43, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Looking at that study, I think there may be enough to write a basic article about SD Ave. I encourage anyone to do that and I'm willing to withdraw my deletion request for the SD Avenue article. That study, however, doesn't cover North Dakota Avenue and I think that one is a pretty clear candidate for deletion. --—D. Monack talk 21:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, looking over that study, it seems like a standard traffic study that could be about any street in America with nothing demonstrating the notability of SD Avenue. I have to reaffirm my call to delete both articles. —D. Monack talk 21:14, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment History of the article and the user contributions shows that this is someone's project to make a page about each of the streets in Washington DC that have been named after a state. There are five so far, these two and New Hampshire, Kansas and Nebraska.  I don't see that there's a need for a page about a street that runs for three blocks, as is the case for ND Ave.  I would support an article about the streets in Washington, D.C. that are named for the states; we all know Pennsylvania Avenue, and I imagine that there's a good reason for some streets being honored with the names of states.  As with the Atlantic City streets on the Monopoly board, I think that, individually, most of those streets would be non-notable.  Together, however, they would be worthy of an article.  Mandsford (talk) 20:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * See List of state-named roadways in Washington, D.C. —D. Monack talk 21:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Excellent. In that case Merge to that.  In fact, I'm going to go ahead and BEBOLD and start changing that from an indiscriminate list into a better list.  Mandsford (talk) 23:10, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete both - Wikipedia is not a street directory. Mandsford's suggestion makes sense: it might be possible to scrape up enough material for a combined article. What we don't want is a project to fill in all the red-links in that list even if, like these two, there's nothing above directory-level to say about them. JohnCD (talk) 21:07, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just basic city streets, nothing to distinguish them from streets in Amarillo or Denver. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 21:18, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is common to designate neighborhoods by their bounding street names. This does not render the streets notable for Wikipedia, unless we really are going to change Wikipedia into an atlas. RayAYang (talk) 22:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to the list article indicated by D Monack above. --Polaron | Talk 00:01, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge both to List of state-named roadways in Washington, D.C. TravellingCari  02:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington, D.C.-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  14:04, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete per above. Seeing that there is already a larger article in place, it is entirely appropriate to fold these two articles into it. Trusilver  00:31, 5 August 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.