Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A4032 road


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was redirect to M32 motorway. (non-admin closure) – Davey 2010 Talk 00:58, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

A4032 road

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A very short road. I can't find any RS to meet GNG &mdash; Rod talk 20:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to A roads in Zone 4 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, as there's nothing here that adds anything additional to the table there. It's possible to expand these A-road stubs into viable articles, but the sources need to exist, and there aren't enough landmarks on this road to make it worthwhile having a separate article. &#8209; iridescent 20:09, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. North America1000 17:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. North America1000 17:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. NN road. Not a useful search term, so no redirect. Szzuk (talk) 19:39, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete . Some of these articles (like A1232 road) turn out to be notable with coaching inns, highwaymen and WWII bomb sites when you look at actual history rather than a random number a bored civil servant chose out of thin air to plonk on a sign one day, but not this one. Alternatively, Iridescent's idea of having a bunch of street articles put together rather than separately under a common sign is not a bad one, but you can't get that from a few hundred yards of an approach road. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  13:52, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect this may be notable but no sources have been provided. It's a useful search term, consistent with existing redirects to the list, many of which have never been articles. Peter James (talk) 17:07, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Not having sources isn't a reason to delete an article, but not being able to find or believe any could be cited is. A better search term is probably "newfoundland circus bristol", though even that brings up little more than traffic reports and property acquisitions, routine coverage, basically. has been known to work miracles in this area, but if he can pull this one off I'll buy him a beer. Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)  17:18, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * @Ritchie333, I would say that keeping it as a redirect does no harm, and potentially is useful to readers. It's perfectly possible to imagine someone hearing "the A4032 is closed for roadworks" on the radio, and looking up where the A4032 actually is to see if it affects them, in which case the redirect is serving a genuine and legitimate purpose. (As I may have mentioned once or twice, I consider WP:ITSUSEFUL one of the most bone-headedly stupid essays on Wikipedia. The whole point of Wikipedia is to be useful to the readers, and if something is potentially useful and not violating any policy there's no reason for it not to exist.) &#8209; iridescent 17:26, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I would certainly expect a local traffic report to be the most likely context where a typical reader would hear about this (eg: "Really heavy congestion coming into Bristol because of a breakdown closing one lane of the A4032, that's Newfoundland Circus towards the House of Fraser, avoid the area if you possibly can"), in which case would it not make more sense to redirect to Transport_in_Bristol. A reader in that instance is probably going to be crestfallen if they are taken to a page of numbers, wouldn't you say? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  17:39, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * As the road is only really used for entry and exit to and from the M32 motorway, of which it is really a continuation but without motorway regulations, it might be best to redirect to the motorway article.&mdash; Rod talk 18:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed, better to redirect to M32, which has more information than in the list. Transport in Bristol doesn't mention this road. Peter James (talk) 18:41, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to M32 motorway works for me. Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  10:32, 17 November 2015 (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.