Talk:Interstate 59 in Mississippi

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Any comments or questions regarding I-59 in La. or Miss. are now welcomed. --Bdj95 05:01, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, talk pages on Wikipedia are intended to discuss the article – ways to improve the article, clarifications when the text is unclear, that sort of thing. It's not for general questions about the subject. -- NORTH talk 18:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Scope: should Louisiana and Mississippi be combined?
About six months ago, this article was created, combining the two states because there is very little in Louisiana. NE2 recently made the companion Interstate 59 in Alabama and Georgia; I-59 is similarly short in Georgia. Scott5114 then decided that this was a bad idea, and moved them to cover Mississippi and Alabama only, arguing that the other states can be covered in Interstate 59. NE2 disagrees, saying that it makes sense to be consistent and cover all four states in subpages.

I think I agree with Scott. His idea is the most consistent and practical. If a particular state's stretch of interstate highway is long enough and / or important enough to warrant its own article then of course it should get one. Sometimes just one city's stretch of interstate is important enough to justify its own article (like Atanta's Downtown Connector, for instance). But if a state (or a city) interstate's features can be summed up, substantially, in one or two paragraphs then I should think it could be covered in the parent article (in this case Interstate 59). Berberry (talk) 19:54, 27 January 2009 (UTC)