Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/R Street (disambiguation)

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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 13:58, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

R Street (disambiguation)

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Unnecessary disambiguation page. Natg 19 (talk) 06:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Natg 19 (talk) 06:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Obviously providing a disambiguation purpose. The question of whether hatnotes could work here is reasonable, but (as someone who's written them myself) this is rubbing up against the length where those get unwieldy, and so a page is justified as the best way to present this information. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 16:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My reason for deletion is that R Street (Washington, D.C.) is just a redirect to a general page about D.C. streets, and I don't think Richard Street was known as "R Street". Therefore, the only topic actually known as "R Street" is R Street Institute, the current primary topic. Natg 19 (talk) 06:35, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would also question whether R Street should require disambiguation to Richard Street, this would be quite unusual in Wikipedia. The policy is to include such cases only where the person is commonly known by the term being disambiguated. I also wonder if the institute is really a primary topic despite there being no separate article for the street itself. It is hardly a household name. Lithopsian (talk) 14:41, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Natg 19 (talk) 21:56, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Natg 19 (talk) 21:56, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This builds too much on a redirect. I am also not convined that Richard Street was called R Street enough to justify having him as a possible connection.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:19, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There is not much to usefully disambiguate here. R Street Institute seems to be the primary topic. There is no article covering an "R Street" in D.C. (Streets and highways of Washington, D.C. doesn't mention it specifically, only talking of the naming in general), but a hatnote can serve this function just as well. Does anyone call Richard Street "R Street"? No, I don't think so. — The Earwig (talk) 03:12, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Excluding either one of the two secondary topics would make this eligible for WP:ONEOTHER, and it looks like there are valid reasons to exclude at least one of those secondary topics. ~ Ase1este_{charge-parity}^time 13:17, 2 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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