Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dundas Street, Hong Kong

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The result was redirect. For now redirected to List of streets and roads in Hong Kong. Discussion can take place on that talk page as to whether it should be instead merged to Mong Kok#Streets and markets. Any content worth merging may be pulled form the age history. Beeblebrox (talk) 06:46, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dundas Street, Hong Kong

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~~Delete~~ Redirect to List of streets and roads in Hong Kong - Non notable road, does not meet WP:GNG as it is a minor downtown street without any reliable secondary sources discussing it. ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 02:24, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hong Kong-related deletion discussions. cab (call) 11:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:45, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Too notable, at least in terms of pedestrian flow, to be deleted. A search for its Chinese name 「登打士街」 in both Google web and news will reveal a completely different story. However, the article does need a few citations to keep up with the notability guidelines. --Der yck C. 13:35, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Isn't pedestrian flow beyond imagination on every street in Hong Kong? Besides, I really doubt you can find a number to attribute to that. The article needs to be discussed (non-trivially) in multiple secondary sources to be considered notable, and not just be a congested pedestrian mall. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 19:42, 18 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Should probably be merged into Mong Kok#Streets and markets or somewhere, rather than being deleted. However I tend to agree that this probably fails WP:N and shouldn't remain in its present form. Yes there's millions of hits in Chinese, but when you narrow that down to reliable sources rather than every piece of junk and directory listing on the internet, most are either:
- "news of the day" (e.g. woman inhaled smoke, guy arrested for selling stuff on the street, etc.), or
- travel guides (see especially the GBooks hits), which mainly give a one-sentence mention that it's at the south end of Fa Yuen Street

They're not discussing anything substantial about the street. I could put in dozens of these sources and make it the article into a long list of administrative crimes and minor accidents, but that would seem to run afoul of WP:NOTNEWS. It would be helpful if someone could demonstrate or suggest the specific sources based on which an actual encyclopedia article could be written. I found and added one source about real estate prices on the street, but I'm not really convinced. Also, WP:NOTBIGENOUGH notwithstanding, it's probably worth pointing out that the street is only 600 metres (2,000 ft) long. cab (call) 00:31, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of streets and roads in Hong Kong. Dough 48 72 20:25, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Notable with practical information. - Ret.Prof (talk) 14:13, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could you clarify on this? Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate directory of information about the cafes and restaurants on every street in the world, so I'm not sure what in the article is practical, nor how having "practical information" makes the topic notable. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 15:14, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.