Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Various Postcodes

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 keep. The "voting" percentage isn't that overwhelming, but it's not a vote and the "keep" arguments establish that this material, in this form, will be useful. Metamagician3000 06:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Inner London postcode districts

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This is a mass nomination. A while back it seems as though all of the outer London post areas were deleted. These are just as un-notable and the information in them is a fork of WC postcode area and EC postcode area. Qu e ntin Smith 14:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: "It seems" (!!) this is incorrect; the result last month (March 28th) was keep - see Category:London postal districts and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London N1. Johnbod 03:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete- agree it is a fork of the area articles. Note that WC1 has more information with references (although perhaps not really relevant to the postal code area). Thunderwing 15:18, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, because useful to some readers. --Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? 16:04, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (talk · contribs) just opined "strong keep" in 27 AFD discussions over a period of 35 minutes, several times with clearly disruptive rationales. Uncle G 16:48, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There is usually a "List of zip codes in ____" (ie: a State) on Wiki, but it doesn't futher break down the zip codes and talk about them specifically. For that reason is why I am voting the way I am. Furthermore, these are already listed on WC postcode area and EC postcode area JAMDAWG 16:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC) ^{talk with me·changes}[reply]
Keep - Well written articles, I think they're useful and appropriate for Wikipedia --Darksun 18:29, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This keeps on coming up from time to time and I agree. WC postcode area and EC postcode area are far superior articles and have proper referencing, are of meaningful size and have room for expansion to become good articles. Aside from the London WC1 article, the rest are just stubs. And WC1 shouldn't be written as a pseudo-district article as it detracts from the 'real' district articles. We wouldn't write such an article about Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency) as if it were a district in its own right and I don't think we should with WC1, it is misleading. In any case even that area is not really a homogeneous area as the article implies, whereas Bloomsbury perhaps is. MRSC • Talk 18:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for being pointless forks that repeat previous information. Eddie.willers 19:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect to WC postcode area and EC postcode area. Useful information can be put on the main articles for the postcode areas. Redirects might be useful but otherwise they are just forks that cannot ever become proper articles. Davewild 19:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Do you have prior AfD discussion links? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 21:33, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per all the reasons at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London N1. Regan123 22:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep - Improper nomination; this issue was decided, after very extensive debate, on March 28th. All the same arguments apply here, with knobs on. Suggest the nomination is withdrawn. Johnbod 03:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The London postcodes especially are important in the UK as directions and locations are often given as a postcode area. "Where in London do you live? Oh EC1" for example. Even non Londoners (yes there are some of us in the UK) hear these trotted out as locational terms, not just used on letters and parcels. Ben W Bell talk 09:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Ben W Bell. - Nick C 19:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep — London postal districts are the size of a typical town and especially the central ones are very notable. — Jonathan Bowen 04:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per Johnbod's argument --St.daniel 13:03, 15 April 2007 (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.