Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lindsay Street

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 redirect to New Market, Kolkata. If the New Market, Kolkata article is deemed to be non-notable, it may be deleted through a separate AfD discussion, which would result in this redirect being deleted per WP:G8. (non-admin closure) SSTflyer 16:09, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lindsay Street

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• Delete [this is the nominator's "vote"] for lack of notability. This street lacks significant coverage in multiple, independent reliable sources. The article also fails to make a claim of notability and fails to provide any basis for such a claim. The article has been tagged as having no references since December 2009, more than six years. The standard for roads and streets is WP:GEOROAD which requires that they meet the general notability guidelines. Lindsay Street does not. --Bejnar (talk) 01:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been noted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject West Bengal. --Bejnar (talk) 01:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Bejnar (talk) 01:14, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect, probably to New Market, Kolkata. Articles found by google searches above "Lindsay Street" with addition of word 'Calcutta' or 'Kolkata' yield marginally sufficient coverage of it as a shopping street, with numerous merchants. Applying the search to images yields images like this postcard of "Lindsay Street, Calcutta". My impression is that it is a major shopping street; I don't know of any more important shopping street in Calcutta, in fact. :) However from the hits it seems to me that "Hogg Market" or "Sir Stuart Hogg Market" (here is a pic and here is a Youtube about it, also/later known as New Market, Kolkata, a landmark upon short Lindsay Street, is more clearly notable. As it also has a Wikipedia article, and as that article states:

  Technically, it referred to an enclosed market but today in local parlance the entire Lindsay Street shopping area is often known as New Market.

I suggest we combine the two articles, i.e. redirect from this one (there is no sourced info to merge). --doncram 01:48, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 17:16, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment The redirect reasoning is extremely strong if I do say so myself. Lindsey St is another name for New market in practice. You, reading this, don't be afraid to close this now. Seriously. :) --doncram 19:22, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect per above. Nordic Dragon 08:00, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with redirecting to New Market, Kolkata, is the lack of appropriate citation in the New Market article. Redirecting from one unsourced article to another is not a real solution. I found only brief mentions for New Market, such as in Chaudhuri's Calcutta: Two Years in the City and travel books. I did not find any in-depth coverage for New Market although I suspect that it may be out there in paper sources. I am torn between what is obviously an encyclopedic article at New Market, Kolkata and Wikipedia's policy of WP:Verifiability. --Bejnar (talk) 14:18, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• List I really don't think that this deserves it's own page, but it might belong in a list somewhere... ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 12:38, 9 April 2016 (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.