Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/7 mile

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 of the debate was delete. Shanel 06:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 7 mile

Could be speedyable for nonsense, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt - it is at least a bit decipherable. But not verifiable and probably not real. (ESkog)^(Talk) 04:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

• Well this isn't speedyable as nonsense since you can figure out what it's talking about... it's just a bit incoherent. Individual streets/roads are rarely notable, but we do have an article on 8 Mile Road for example (important long before the movie of a similar name). Anyway this particular article has obvious issues, might be something for Wikinews if cleaned up but I'm not seeing that it's an encyclopedia article really. Weak delete --W.marsh 04:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Certainly not patent nonsense, as explained above, but not notable either. PJM 04:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete in accordance with the thinking of PJM. Ruby 05:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-25 10:31Z
• Delete pure Art Brut genius. I'm copying it for posterity, but it doesn't belong here. Nathan Beach 19:36, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - not notable enough (assuming it's real). Latinus 20:32, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Seven Mile Road runs all the way across Detroit, through many different areas, and is not the identity of any distinct neighborhood. The article is incoherent. Kestenbaum 03:33, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I have rewritten this and removed the references to a single act of violence that formed the bulk of the text. It is now a stub that could someday be expanded with more information about the neighborhoods around Seven mile Road and more encyclopedic content. TMS63112 19:59, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
  • If this is kept it should probably be moved to Seven Mile Road with redirects from 7 Mile, 7 mile, and 7 Mile Road. TMS63112 20:01, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
  • The article still refers to "the area" identified by Seven Mile Road. But there is no such "area" -- it slices completely across the city, through many different areas with wildly different characteristics. Yes, most of them are predominantly African American, but so is almost all of Detroit. It's like making a generalization about "the area" along the 39th parallel in the U.S., including Newark, Columbus, Kansas City, Denver, and San Francisco, and all the territory in between. It's hard to imagine any generalizations about that "area" that wouldn't apply pretty well to the U.S. as a whole. [Oops, forgot to sign this earlier. Kestenbaum 21:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)]
    • Yes, and it also extends into the western suburbs of Detroit, which are very different from the neighborhoods in Detroit that it cuts through. The artilce probably needs editing by someone more familiar with Detroit than I am (I've been there once) but I see how this could be a decent article, with links to the neighborhoods and suburbs that the road runs through. But I live 700 miles away and I know the road, so I consider it notable TMS63112 16:24, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
      • Sure, I can see how it could be a decent article, assuming that other at least equally noteworthy streets typically have articles. I haven't looked yet, but what about, say, Woodward Avenue or Brush Street in Detroit? Beale Street in Memphis? Peachtree Street in Atlanta? State Street or "The Magnificent Mile" in Chicago? Fifth Avenue in NYC? Summit Boulevard in St. Paul? Bourbon Street in New Orleans? Each of those have a lot of cultural/historical significance, mentioned in book titles, song lyrics, known to people who have never been to those cities, etc. Kestenbaum 21:37, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
        • State Street (Chicago), Peachtree Street, Michigan Avenue, Woodward Avenue, and Beale Street all have articles. Bourbon Street redirects to French Quarter. These streets are all more notable than Seven Mile, but, let's face it, Seven Mile is probably more notable than Cooter, Missouri or any of the dozens of small towns that have wiki articles. I seem to be the only one who wants to keep this, and I'm not likely to expand it any time soon, so if people prefer, I would be perfectly happy with a redirect to Mile Road System (Detroit). TMS63112 00:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
          • I could support a redirect. There's nothing to merge though. (ESkog)^(Talk) 00:13, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per nom incog 03:25, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep now that it's been rewritten. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 07:42, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or redirect to Mile Road System (Detroit)....Scott⁵¹¹⁴ 22:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. Will be useful for searchers and has some non-obvious information and, per above discussion, seems notable enough, if barely.--ragesoss 06:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, Let's not start making articles based on their relevance relative to other articles. Just because George Washington's mother gave birth to George Washington doesn't make her encyclopedia-worthy, and neither does the fact that this street is next to 8 mile make it worthy. User: Klestrob44

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.