Talk:Aldersgate Street

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"A street leading north from London Wall towards Clerkenwell." Unlike e.g. 24 Sussex Drive there is no metonymy here, and we are not a street atlas. Equinox ◑ 13:44, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: I find some intrinsic value in this being here Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 15:03, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Do you have any reason to want to keep this? If so, what it is? Renard Migrant (talk) 15:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And how does this "finding" in any way comport with WT:CFI? Delete DCDuring TALK 15:11, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I disagree with this particular interpretation of CFI. There also isn't a dang thing in CFI about roads or streets. We are being overly restrictive and deleting too much stuff, and these two deletions are a perfect example of that. Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 16:42, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm not sure if it's covered by CFI (yet), but common sense would suggest we avoid this: what you said about CFI applies equally to Main Street. How many cities, towns, hamlets, burgs and other assorted places in the US don't have a Main Street? Chuck Entz (talk) 22:09, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - Well CFI isn't CFE; it's not criteria for exclusion it's criteria for inclusion. How does this meet any of them? When you say "I disagree with this particular interpretation of CFI", what interpretation is this? Renard Migrant (talk) 14:31, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. - -sche (discuss) 16:54, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There was an underground station named "Aldersgate Street" opened in 1865, but it is now named "Barbican" after two name changes (since 1968). Donnanz (talk) 17:13, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- By coincidence, that is where Wikimania 2014 is being held. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:31, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
OTOH Aldersgate (at 17:46, 21 June 2014 (UTC) a redirect to Aldersgate Street) would seem to be lexical in that it refers metonymously to a critical event in the life of John Wesley and the history of Methodism. It is analogous to road to Damascus. I only found one citation at Google books that has that same interpretation. DCDuring TALK 17:46, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
See [[Aldersgate]]. DCDuring TALK 18:40, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good. Somebody added that Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 21:03, 21 June 2014 (UTC) A Methodist[reply]

Delete This can easily get ridiculous.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:42, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. --Dmol (talk) 22:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (same as below). Renard Migrant (talk) 14:34, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, not because it's a street name, but because it's generally considered as a name, but not as a word (unlike e.g. Strand, Champs-Élysées or Canebière which should be accepted, because these names are considered as words). I have a related question: very often, German street names are written as single words, e.g. Friedrichstraße. Are these names considered as words in German? I feel they might, but I don't know for sure. Lmaltier (talk) 17:14, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]