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Fails WP:NCORP. Coverage is confined to domain-industry trade outlets and funding briefs not independent in-depth coverage of the company. The 2025 discussion closed as keep on three !votes: two from sockpuppets of the paid-editing farm at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Expertwikiguy, and one from the page's creator, who disclosed that in the discussion. Kqol • talk 23:30, 30 October 2026 (UTC)

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Doesn't meet WP:GNG, WP:BIO and suspect COI is happening to the page. // IndrasBet 「talk」 17:37, 30 October 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete. He has a name too common to make searching easy, but our article claims that his main accomplishment is the formulation of something called "C-Pattern theory". Google Scholar says: 'Your search - "C-Pattern Theory" "rodriguez" -author:rodriguez - did not match any articles'. I think that says enough. No academic impact, no academic notability. And the only footnote that hints at independent sourcing, a story in Tages Anzeiger, doesn't even drop his name, suggesting the kind of falsified sources that one sees in low-quality LLM content and more importantly failing to make any case for WP:GNG-based notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:18, 30 October 2026 (UTC)

List of streets at CERN

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List of streets at CERN (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:NLIST, and Wikipedia is not a directory of street names at a particular place. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 15:18, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

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• Delete. None of the streets have their own pages, the only notability is the people after whom they are named. I am dubious about whether having a street named after them really contributes to their notability. As the nom has said, this is not a directory. Ldm1954 (talk) 15:25, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

  Some ten years back my ambition was indeed to create a separate page for each of the CERN streets. However, at the time the Wikipedia community advised that this should not be done—it was better to have the CERN streets described in a compiled list. I am not sure if I am able to retrieve that discussion, but I can make an effort if you think it is of interest.

  ~~~ Bibliophilen (talk) 06:06, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

  Maybe it would be a compromise to embed this list in the CERN page? I would say it is of interest for people outside CERN as it shows whom the Organization deems as notable enough to dedicate a street name to them. Especially when new names are added, it is a symbolic gesture showing support for certain groups of scientists: https://home.cern/new-street-names-at-cern-honour-distinguished-figures/ ). Alpaca95 (talk) 07:49, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

  This is of course a possibility. However, I note that Wikipedia has its own category of list of lists of streets: Category:Lists of streets, so I do not really understand the issue brought up by Ldm1954.

  ~~~ Bibliophilen (talk) 08:45, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

  I retrieved the discussion from 10 years back: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 November 5#Category:Streets in CERN At the time I had started pages for each street and collecting them in a category, the outcome was "The result of the discussion was: move page to Streets in CERN. The category has already been emptied."

  ~~~ Bibliophilen (talk) 23:06, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

• Delete per nominator and WP:DICT. Redvelvetvanilaaaaaaaaa (talk) 16:34, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

  I would not delete it as a service to public history: The CERN site sees many visitors today getting curious on who are the people behind the names. The street names are dedicated to key figures in physics. STANDPROFILE (talk) 09:39, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

• Keep. This is not a normal list of streets you can find in a normal map. Even though the Canton of Geneva has recognized these roads, they do not appear on the official map of Switzerland, where the normal street names are included: https://map.geo.admin.ch This makes the list on Wikipedia particularly valuable. If the article’s status as a standalone entry is called into question, then I am in favor of incorporating the information into the main article about CERN. --Hadi (talk) 13:50, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

  I don't see how any of that is relevant to the question of notability or WP:NOTDIRECTORY concerns, and it gets into WP:ITSUSEFUL territory. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 19:10, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

  I fully support Hadi

  Michel Spiro Spiromichel (talk) 08:06, 26 October 2026 (UTC) — Spiromichel (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

• Followup nom comment. I'm also specifically opposing a merge to the main article. What's WP:DUE there is a general note about how the streets are named, and is in fact, already there: "Most of the roads on the CERN Meyrin and Prévessin sites are named after famous physicists, such as Niels Bohr, who pushed for CERN's creation. Other notable names are Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein, and Wolfgang Pauli." (although this is unsourced, and should really have one). THat much is fine, but a giant listing of all the street names would be WP:UNDUE. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 19:10, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

  The two policies you are citing here refer to the handling of minority viewpoints. I believe this is not the scope of this discussion. It is not a minority viewpoint that the streets at CERN are named after famous physicists. Alpaca95 (talk) 11:53, 30 October 2026 (UTC)

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Keep – The article documents a notable aspect of the history and identity of CERN. Unlike an indiscriminate directory, the street names form a curated system commemorating important figures in physics and the development of CERN itself. The topic is well sourced, officially recognized, and provides historical and educational context that would be lost if the information were merely dispersed among other articles. Mauro.mezzetto (talk) 09:25, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

• Could an experienced Wikipedian explain why many other lists of streets are allowed here Category:Lists of streets? And what sets this list apart from those others? Thank you --Hadi (talk) 14:20, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

  See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. It's not always a question of "allowed to exist", so much as that no one's noticed it or cared enough to nominate it for deletion. It's quite likely that such other lists should also be deleted (one of them is in fact up for deletion, which is how I found this one in the first place). –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 17:15, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

  I suggest that we read the failed proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(streets,_roads,_and_highways) before taking strong actions.

  ~~~ Bibliophilen (talk) 08:21, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

  Why? As a failed proposal, this carries no weight. But even if you do, it still says, "Such a list, however, should not be comprehensive as to the streets and roads in the jurisdiction, since Wikipedia is not a directory." So I don't know what you're trying to get out of that anyway. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 13:57, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

  I believe that the community could not converge and that is why we still have Category:Lists of streets and the page in the centre of this discussion.

  ~~~ Bibliophilen (talk) 22:54, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

• Merge any content with references into the main CERN article, delete the rest. Royal Autumn Crest (talk) 17:17, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Star Mississippi 15:13, 30 October 2026 (UTC)

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