Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polfbroekstraat
This article is a disgrace to Wikipedia.
The truth is there is no such place. There is in fact one real Belgian google: [1]
Which by the way, also mentions the Polbroek, as the street is really called. The text gives a lot of "wegels" (paths, unaccessible to cars, and thus usually not mentioned on a road map) that connect the "Polfbroekstraat" to "Hoeksken". On the road map I use ("Stratenatlas van Vlaanderen - Guide des Rues de Flandre. Standaard Uitgeverij, ISBN 90-0-20614-3.") Hoeksken is a street parallel to Polbroek. For those who do not understand why Polfbroekstraat could be a misprint for "Polbroek": most streets in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium end in "straat" so incorrectly adding "straat" to a street name which does not have one, sometimes happens. And again, Polbroek also appears in this one Belgian Google.
The reason why it is obvious that Polfbroekstraat is in fact "Polbroek"? Well, at the point where a street called Espenhoek, coming from the South and going to the centre of SLH, becomes the Polbroek, there is also a road on the right: the almost circular road called Cotthem. And yes, Cotthem is another one of these phantom towns created (as Kottem) by the same people who created Polfbroekstraat, Eiland, and others. Note that both Espenhoek and Cotthem are marked as hamlets of the former village of Oombergen, and that Sint-Lievens-Houtem has fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. How could a town like that harbour three or even four metropolises with more than 30,000 inhabitants EACH?
- In the talk page on Polfbroekstraat I claimed that the Polbroek began at the most southerly arm of the Cotthem with the approach road to Sint-Lievens-Houtem. This was based on a road map in book form quoted above. According to www.mappy.be (online road map of Belgium), this is wrong: Polbroek starts at the most northerly intersection. This makes the Polbroek even shorter.
- This map and this one indicate what I mean.User_tlk:Pan_Gerwazy--pgp 21:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Of course, I can provide pictures of this road (as I happen to live in the neighbourhood - it is nice cycling there on a sunny day like we have now), but somehow I think that even a letter by the mayor of Sint-Lievens-Houtem is not going to convince those people (are there really four of them?) who seem prepared to create a parallel universe.
What I write here also holds for Eiland and Kottem (actually Cotthem, as I explained), of course: only relatively unimportant streets in Sint-Lievens-Houtem! User_talk:Pan_Gerwazy pgp 20:19, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Polfbroekstraat is a non-notable street. When I worked on it I was under the impression that it was a city. I'm not so sure about Eiland and Kottem, though; Charlesxavier had some sort of information on those that he was providing last night on IRC. Anyhow, those aren't part of this AfD. syphonbyte 20:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)