Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freddie Mercury Close

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 delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 18:49, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Freddie Mercury Close

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Minor private, closed street in London named after Freddie Mercury. Mercury, of course, is über-famous but notability is not inherited and the street itself has received little (if any) coverage beyond the routine news stories generated when the street was renamed earlier this year. Since Wikipedia is not news, I believe this fails the WP:GNG. One option is to redirect this to Freddie Mercury although this would require adding a sentence or two about the road to the main article (probably in the "Tributes" section). Pichpich (talk) 18:27, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 23:44, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 23:44, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

• Speedy Keep The nomination does not make an argument for deletion. See WP:EDITREQ. Andrew🐉(talk) 20:11, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep follow the RS. CNN, People Magazine, Albany Herald, Yahoo News, Gulf News etc. Lightburst (talk) 23:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
• Delete. I don't see how this meets WP:NGEO, given WP:NOTNEWS. Street exists, few news outlets mentioned this as a trivia. No need for this to have its own article, enough to have this mentioned in the Freddie_Mercury#Tributes. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:41, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
• delete and a round of trout to those saying that no argument is made, because the argument is very plain: that there's nothing significant said about this street past the initial announcement and coverage thereof. Maybe it could redirect back to Mercury's own article, but it's a one sentence entry in the list of tributes and memorials. Mangoe (talk) 04:38, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

• The nomination and nay-sayers are suggesting merger but that's not done by deletion. And this hasn't been done for other things named after Freddie Mercury such as Cirolana mercuryi and 17473 Freddiemercury. What's routine here is that this is a content dispute but AfD is not cleanup. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:44, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

It is done all the time, and this is not a judicial bureaucracy. We don't need the same discussion in a less visible place simply to satisgy someone's love of process; this will serve quite well. Also, I'm disinclined to leave a redirect. Mangoe (talk) 12:14, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

For anyone saying that no argument for deletion is made, let me spell it out again. I don't believe the article meets WP:GNG because of a lack of sustained significant coverage. Thus, my first inclination is to delete. I recognize that others may disagree and so I offered option #2: leaving a redirect behind and adding to the Freddie Mercury article. AfD is the perfect forum to discuss these two options as well as the option of simply keeping the article as is. Pichpich (talk) 20:41, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

• Delete The renaming received a smattering of coverage, but the street itself has no lasting independent notability. Already covered in sufficient detail at Freddie Mercury#Tributes. –dlthewave ☎ 02:07, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Delete Lots of places are named after lots of people, does not give them automatic notability even if noted in routine news. AFD outcomes are not limited to "delete" or "keep" and complaining about procedure is not a valid reason to default to the latter. Reywas92^Talk 05:10, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

• Delete - The street itself does not have enduring notability and is only known for a single, passing event. -- Dane ^talk 18:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Delete per nom --Devokewater @ 13:38, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

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