Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A2199 road


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The result was   redirect to A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme. Stifle (talk) 17:33, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

A2199 road

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The article has no reliable sources. Similarly numbered local roads in the area do not have articles either, as previous consensus suggested that they did not pass the general notability guidelines. Ritchie333  (talk)  17:39, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:07, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - an A road would be at the same level as an American state highway, and general consensus is that they are notable - yes, it's WP:OTHERSTUFF, but in this case it's comparable. If that's not acceptable, though, a Redirect to A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme would be logical. - The Bushranger One ping only 02:02, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * In the discussion I linked to above, the opinion was that A roads were equivalent to Federal Highways, but as I have mentioned in the discussion, this is misleading as a road's number does not reflect its source and level of funding, and general importance. Furthermore, a google search for this road returned a bunch of self-referencing hits, so there's still the issue of reliable sources to resolve. -- Ritchie333  (talk)  08:53, 20 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme. The road numbered A2199 is roughly 3.5 km long, which is very short compared even to other 4-digit A roads. On 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps it's marked in magenta, indicating a "main road" (on OS maps, the importance of a road is denoted by colour: the scale is blue-green-magenta-orange-yellow-white). About the only important fact about this road is that for much of its length it forms part of the boundary between Lambeth and Southwark - a fact not mentioned in the article. -- Red rose64 (talk) 14:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * These details added. Peterkingiron (talk) 12:25, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect prt Redrose64. Simply south...... having large explosions for 5 years 16:27, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep -- This is harmless little stub on a short first-class road. It is not claimed to be a trunk road (maintianed by Highways Agency, which would be the equivalent (I presume) of a Federal Highway.  I presume that it is a significant road locally.  I am doubtful wheher we need articles on all the B-class roads, but despite the four-digit number, I think we should allow them on most A-class roads, unless they are exceptionally short and can be dealt with as a spur of another one (i.e. merged into another article).  Peterkingiron (talk) 12:20, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I have delinked South Croxted Road and Croxted Road, which redirect back to this article. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:14, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You can try arguing WP:NOHARM on this, but the fact is there are probably very few people who know this road by its number. That could be argued as WP:IDONTKNOWIT, but the start of the road here doesn't appear to have any sign bearing the number, neither does its end here. I don't think anyone's going to search for "A2199 road". -- Ritchie333  (talk)  13:56, 23 January 2012 (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.