Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/55 mph


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The result was redirect to National Maximum Speed Law. --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:35, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

55 mph

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There is nothing particularly notable about a speed limit of 55 miles per hour that isn't already exhaustively covered in Speed limits in the United States or National Maximum Speed Law. There is also nothing really unique about this speed in a scientific or transportation engineering sense; it's just one of an infinite number of speeds you could pull out of a hat, each of which has its own unique but hardly notable set of costs and benefits.

What next, do we need 65 mph because lots of (most?) rural US Interstates had 65 mph speed limits between 1986 and 1995?

By allowing this page to exist, we would create notability where it does not exist or validate what is most likely an arbitrarily-picked number. Nova SS (talk) 16:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete (or possibly Redirect to National Maximum Speed Law) -- as one of the original authors of the page, I agree with the nominator. A number is not really notable, though 55 mph does have special significance in national history. -- KelleyCook (talk) 19:16, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect to National Maximum Speed Law on the principle of least surprise. If someone types this into the search box, that is the article they are probably looking for. *** Crotalus *** 21:12, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, or merge into (subdisambiguation in) 55 (number). The fact that there are songs associated with this, not necessarily directly related to the National Maximum Speed Law, seems to make 55 mph notable.  &mdash; Arthur Rubin |  (talk) 23:43, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment the two songs that I am aware of associated with 55 mph namely "I can't drive 55" by Sammy Hagar and the title song from the movie "Convoy" were both directly protesting the former U.S National speed limit. -- KelleyCook (talk) 23:55, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Crotalus horridus. Majoreditor (talk) 03:54, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect, per KelleyCook and the rattlesnake. -- Orange Mike  |  Talk  17:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as redirect is us-centric. MilborneOne (talk) 17:22, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think this is a strong argument. The reality is that if this page goes bye bye, searches for 55 mph will find Speed Limits in the United States first per . That is a good hit. Nova SS (talk) 03:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.