Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tennison 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 delete. If anyone wants the limited amount of information relative to Sherlock Holmes to merge into that article, ask me or another administrator. —Doug Bell talk 21:27, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Tennison Road

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I doubt that this road is notable. Proximity to a football ground and some Conan Doyle connections aren't enough. A bit iffy 17:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC) I've added a bit on the parks that might make it more intresting. Plus i'm going to write separate articles on these parks aswell including history of the parks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siemens2 (talk • contribs)
 * Delete I don't see much here. The Sherlock Holmes connection is tenuous; the street isn't central to the story. The presence of a phone box fails to interest me. --Brianyoumans 18:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I belive that maybe this article is going to be a bit unnoticed, but remember every article counts to make Wikipedia even bigger. Besides the way it's been written is done very well. I'm the writer of this, and would be very dissapointed if this is destroyed
 * Comment - the reason I nominated your article for deletion centres on notability as per guideline Notability, which says "a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself". Can you come up with sources like these?--A bit iffy 12:19, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep The Arthur Conan Doyle residency and it being a setting in the legendary Sherlock Holmes novels is notable per WP:LOCAL. And it is a primary road in a city, not just some sidestreet.  --Oakshade 02:57, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment- Oakshade, can you come up with some evidence that the road is a primary road in London or even South Norwood? I ask because I happen to know the road and to me it's rather dull and unremarkable. The reason I know the road is because I lived for 15 years in that area, and I would not regard it as "primary".--A bit iffy 04:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe "primary" is a subjective term and I respect your call on that.  Certainly not "primary" for all of London, but it's also not "minor" in South Norwood. (former London resident typing here.)  The added historic connection is what makes it more notable. --Oakshade 04:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak delete I am often going down or past Tennison Road and in fact did so tonight on my way home. It's really not a major road, just a bit of a rat run with a small single decker bus route that follows many back streets in the area (it is a route that avoids principal roads on purpose). More important principal and feeder roads in the area like Selhurst Road, Woodside Green, Whitehorse Lane and Whitehorse Road are more notable from a transportation point of view and I am not sure we need an article on the address of every notable person. That said, I don't feel that strongly about this. Martín (saying/doing) 00:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, TigerShark 18:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete I was going to say Merge the interesting bits (e.g. Conan Doyle refs) into South Norwood, but they're already there, the road isn't notable otherwise. EliminatorJR 19:51, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge anything missing from South Norwood. Also the linked articles may also continue non notable places/things that could be merged. Regan123 21:12, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep due to Arthur Conan Doyle reference (WP:LOCAL) and thus also per WP:NOT. --Thisisbossi 12:33, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete No sources to show there is anything notable about theis road. Being mentioned in a work of fiction is not sufficient. Inkpaduta 14:28, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, I don't see any sources to proof the road is notable. So what if its mentioned in some fiction book? Terence Ong 恭喜发财 15:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. In fact, it's not even clear from the article whether Conan Doyle even mentioned the road: the article simply says he "...used the area as the setting for a Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Norwood Builder."--A bit iffy 16:32, 23 February 2007 (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.