Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MacDonnell Road

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The result was keep. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 12:27, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MacDonnell Road[edit]

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No indication of notability, fails WP:GEOROAD Rusf10 (talk) 03:02, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 03:02, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Hong Kong-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 03:02, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There is sufficient coverage about MacDonnell Road in this article in the Oriental Daily and this article in the Hong Kong Economic Times to establish notability per Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline.
There is also coverage in this article from Hong Kong Brand Museum, which says (from Google Translate): "There is a McDonald’s Road in Mid-Levels, but it has nothing to do with fast food brands. It is named in memory of Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, the sixth governor of Hong Kong. Before 1957, it was called "McDonald Road", and Hong Kong people would also translate the English name Donald into "Dang Slave", so some people would sometimes write "McDonald". According to James L. Watson, a former guest professor of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in his book, McDonald’s in Hong Kong considered using the word "slave" to avoid confusion with McDonald’s Road."
Alternatively, this article could be merged to Richard Graves MacDonnell#Places named after him or his wife per Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Alternatives to deletion.
Cunard (talk) 01:50, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. At least one building on the road described in this article is a listed building, so unless it gets its own article it deserves to be kept per WP:GEOLAND. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:59, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Wrong guideline! GEOLAND, used for geographic regions, populated places, and natural features has nothing to do with it. Roads do not get notability for buildings.--Rusf10 (talk) 17:51, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 11:59, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per above notable building passes WP:GEOLAND as per available coverage. Peneplavím (talk) 16:03, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Again, GEOLAND is not the appropriate guideline (the correct one is WP:GEOROAD) and the notability of a building has nothing to do with this.--Rusf10 (talk) 17:53, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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