Talk:A road (disambiguation)

Discussion copied from User talk:Nono64 on 27 October 2008
There seem to be a few issues with your recent edits. Those that I have picked up:
 * I think "A road" in UK road articles is better piped to Great Britain road numbering scheme., not a list. The list does not explain what an A road is.
 * It will take time for me to assert the extend of the damage. Give me a few days for I can search and correct in my history those bad linkings of my own. Nono64 (talk) 22:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Your new page "List of A roads systems"
 * is not a disambiguation page
 * needs to clarify whether it is a list of lists or a list of road numbering systems/schemes. If it's the latter, the page needs to link to the articles which describe the systems.
 * Well, I wasn't sure until recently, and that can explain the problems. I have begun the article as a "list of A roads" and only wanted to list roads. But I changed the title as I could see there were some sort of categories or schemes existing within the roads listed. Anyway the artcle gives the (not lists) tables of roads, but it could be better placed in a section with a different title like "see also". Nono64 (talk) 22:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I cannot see any evidence that A roads in Australia and Argentina are numbered according to the first letter of the "state" (no Australian states begin with A)
 * Well, me neither. I will check that too. Put it in commentary for the moment. You didn't mention Alaska. Do you think there is enough evidence to maintain that in the article?Nono64 (talk) 22:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Alaska looks OK, see Interstate Highways in Alaska. Mhockey (talk) 22:42, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * A in Argentinan road stands for Autopista, like in Autopista 002Nono64 (talk) 08:21, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

You may want to discuss on a talk page, e.g. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways, before proceeding. Mhockey (talk) 18:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Some of your new redirect pages do not seem to be supported by the content of the target articles, for example A1 highway (Australia), A1 highway (Bosnia and Herzegovina), A1 motorway (Serbia) - I have only checked a few
 * I think I must have reused the links or phrasings of link of others users in these instances. Here too, I will need a few days to check it all! Nono64 (talk) 22:12, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Clean-up tag
I tagged this a while ago, and many issues have been addressed, e.g. the piping, but I'm unsure if it is now OK and the tag can be removed. I'm unsure about the format (the lists of entries on both the right and left-hand sides of the page) and the addition of categories as entries. I'm also unsure about the information at the bottom. Does anyone have any ideas how to deal with this? Boleyn3 (talk) 08:05, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

List or disambiguation page?
The problem with this article is that it is trying to do two things, and not doing either well. A disambiguation page is a page to disambiguate WP articles. This page does more than that, which is why it does not conform to WP:MOSDAB. It is also a list of road numbering systems which use the letter A.

To fix this, I suggest splitting into two articles: 1. A dab page which only includes articles or article sections which have A road in the title. This would be a page where MOSDAB permits a limited amount of piping (to article sections). 2. A list of road numbering systems which use A roads, in which piping could be used more freely, and need not be limited to cases where there are WP articles.

The series of articles List of A1 roads etc are dab articles, and ought to be treated as such - including renaming them A1 road, etc. Mhockey (talk) 14:27, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good. Boleyn2 (talk) 08:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:List of A roads which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 19:02, 22 September 2016 (UTC)