Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Madison Street (Manhattan)

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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 Keep. References have been added and the clear consensus was to keep. (closed by non-admin). RMHED (talk) 21:36, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Madison Street (Manhattan)

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Delete unsourced article about a un-noteworthy street in New York. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. -- -- pb30<talk> 18:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep as potentionally sourceable and notable. IMHO, inherently notable city streets have a subway, El, or bus lines that runs down it; and historical buildings facing or having addresses on that street. Madison Street (as opposed to Division Street, Manhattan) has both. I think there are two bus lines (M15, M22) (see [1] at the MTA web site]) and there are several historic schools on Madison Street. Bearian'sBooties (talk) 19:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Article's got a chance. Needs cleanup and expansion.Mitch32contribs 19:23, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep the article is about five days old. Give it time. Although I'm actually pessimistic that it has potential beyond being a WP:COATRACK, but the nominator hasn't indicated he actually knows the subject is unnoteworthy. Noroton (talk) 19:46, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. Doubtful this article is headed for WP:COATRACK use, could you expand on that? Benjiboi 12:56, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
My mistake, I'd forgotten the part of WP:COATRACK definition dealing with bias which doesn't apply to this article. Despite the fine improvements by Bearian, however, the other aspects of WP:COATRACK do seem to apply: It's hard to believe there will every be reliable sources found for information on this street that focus on the street itself. Therefore the article is probably destined to be either entirely or mostly about individual things that are on the street. Bearian has added some information that describes the street itself and the nature of what's along stretches of it. I still doubt that this kind of information will be bare-bones forever and any further expansion of this short, short article will come with expanded information about the coats on the rack. I'm not changing my vote from keep because, particularly with geography-related articles, prospects tend to be pretty good for being pleasantly surprised. Noroton (talk) 03:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep AfD isn't clean-up. If the article is less than a week old perhaps more worthy clean-up tags looking for expansion and sourcing would make sense. Benjiboi 03:08, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep as it is a sourced article of a notable street. Happy New Year! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 18:58, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep As a new article we should make some allowances. Although neither of the sources presented satisfy me with regards to notability for Madison Street. In general it should be possible to find significant coverage for any streets with historic buildings, books on architectural history could be a good place to start looking. Taemyr (talk) 14:31, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment I've added more sources; there are plenty I found at Msn.com. Bearian (talk) 16:01, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Snowball Keep as the road has notability. --Son (talk) 01:44, 3 January 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.