Talk:Devilstrip

This can easily fit in the article on Tree lawn since they are one in the same. The term is already in the article and possibly some mention of it being unique to Akron can be made. In reality, this is largely trivial and not really that notable at all, especially since the term is largely unknown and unused outside of the city of Akron. --JonRidinger (talk) 20:10, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

An informal and utterly unscientific poll of my coworkers in east/central New Jersey gave the result that they do not use the term Tree lawn (or devilstrip). If there are many places in the country that do not use tree lawn (I do not know if there are), perhaps it is somewhat presumptuous to redirect all regional terms for this roadside feature to only tree lawn? -- N Vale (talk) 20:37, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Good point, though from what I have seen, tree lawn seems to be the most common around the country, though that article is tagged for "not promoting a worldwide view." My main point is not to promote "tree lawn" as the "official" term, but it seems overly redundant to have articles for each regional term when they all mean the same thing.  One article can explain the concept and contain references for regional variations (which it currently does).  I honestly don't use "tree lawn" either; to be honest I sometimes refer to it as the "easement" if I use an actual term at all! --JonRidinger (talk) 21:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * And I call it a curb (NW Ohio). This article is lacking in every way possible and if it doesn't get redirected in 24 hours I'll take it to AfD. §hep  Talk  21:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * i knew you from northwest, um yeah information comes in time; so give it.--Threeblur0 (talk) 21:18, 16 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, this article has no notability and is redundant. If a devil strip were something different than a tree lawn, curb, or easement, then it could warrant its own article. It isn't so it simply needs a redirect. Remember, Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia of everything.  --JonRidinger (talk) 21:22, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Dear god! Have you ever taken an English class? If you don't have a handful of reliable sources when you create an article or have them within a few minutes of creating one, you should expect it be deleted. The only reason it's been here for this long is because Jon was kind enough to open a discussion instead of CSDing this. §hep  Talk  21:33, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Merger

 * Oppose No reliable sources used, adding this content elsewhere does not help the problem, but pass it off to someone else. If the title must be kept, redirect. §hep  Talk  21:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I was thinking that pretty much as soon as I put the merger tag on. A redirect seems best since it seems to be established that devil strip is an actual term that is equal to tree lawn. Should we instead replace the merger tag with an AfD tag?  --JonRidinger (talk) 22:02, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Decisions, decisions...Maybe we should just redirect it without the extra bureaucracy? Not sure, if it needs AfD it needs AfD. Seems I'm a lot of help (sorry). §hep  Talk  00:38, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I say just redirect it to Tree lawn since none of the sources are reliable and the remaining info is trivial. --JonRidinger (talk) 00:59, 17 March 2009 (UTC)