Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of eponymous streets in New York City

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The result was keep. The consensus, supported by at least some sourcing, is that the practice of naming streets out of people in New York is notable, thus justifying this list. Mkativerata (talk) 03:27, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of eponymous streets in New York City[edit]

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Wikipedia is not a case study. This list examines a relationship between a method of naming streets in a specific city without showing why streets named this way in this specific city (NYC) are notable. This is actually one of the most common methods of street naming anywhere in the world. Sebwite (talk) 21:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 00:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 00:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 00:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Every street is named after something or other. WP is not a directory of street names, as interesting as some may be. Jaque Hammer (talk) 04:06, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and reference better. Most street in NYC are numbered so they obviously aren't eponymous. Notability has to do with article space, not for lists. Saying: "This is actually one of the most common methods of street naming anywhere in the world." has no basis in fact. The most common street names are "park" and "second" and "main". --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 05:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Interesting, but too trivial for an encyclopedia. Dough 48 72 04:53, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Our standard of notability is coverage in reliable and verifiable sources, and this article already includes one of several books that cover the subject, which is also covered in The New York Times among many other sources about New York City street names. The notability standard is met here. Alansohn (talk) 13:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Richard Arthur Norton, Alansohn, WP:LIST, and WP:50k. This is a list of notable streets, in the largest American city, made in this form for ease of reading and research by our core readers. Whole books have been written on the specific topic, and thus can be well-sourced. Bearian (talk) 21:07, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It does not bother me that there is a list of streets in a city here. It does not bother me that there are no sources in the article to verify information either - that can be fixed over time. The issue is that there is nothing in the article to show that the fact that these streets are eponymous in this city is something of notable importance. Given no such information, it is no different from making a list called "List of streets in Dallas, Texas named after tree species" when there is no given reason why something is important about this reason for naming. Just because NYC is the nation's largest city does not mean you can make lists of streets in the city given their name for whatever reason you can dream of. Does anyone not get the point? Sebwite (talk) 05:37, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep That it is notable is shown by the books about the specific topic, as Bearian commented above. Nothing further is necessary to meet a notability guideline. DGG ( talk ) 00:02, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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