Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annual Toronto Transit Commission ridership per year


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 06:50, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Annual Toronto Transit Commission ridership per year

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This is an indiscriminate list of statistics. Radagast (talk) 04:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Mergeto Toronto Transit Commission, can probably be converted into a graph using EasyTimeline 70.29.210.174 (talk) 05:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I have to agree, since lists often contain significance for them to be included. The two sources provide enough information for readers.  In addition, both Annual TTC ridership per year and Talk:Annual TTC ridership per year should be deleted, since they are redirects to the article in question and its talk page.  Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 15:48, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 11:59, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 11:59, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge with article about parent organization. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:45, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Merge (redirect title) and remove ridership info per WP:NOTDIR and WP:NOT guidelines. If this amount of ridership info were to be provided at all, it would have to, at the very least, be cited from multiple sources. Besides a few lines and the sources, this page is mostly a list of statistics. Sebwite (talk) 18:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Keep There are too many dates there. It is simply too exhaustive. All data is official TTC data, from one source. Therefore it is not true that there are too few sources. A similar situation can be found here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_population_census_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina Many different data points, therefore it is not part of but has its separate page as it is in more detail. (LAz17 (talk) 19:53, 11 June 2009 (UTC)).
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a valid keep rationale, and there is no reason why every single year has to be included in the main article. You could do a sidebar table that lists the ridership today, in 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, 1985, etc, and a link to the stats page that you got the information from if a reader wanted full year-by-year data. Resolute 16:41, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Excluding many years is very detrimental, as this goes up and down depending on the year. We would be missing the big picture here, as ridership is not increasing nonstop as you would suggest, if one excluded all years. (LAz17 (talk) 13:56, 13 June 2009 (UTC)).


 * delete Stats table with no likelihood of expansion into anything more. Information like this would be far more useful as a sidebar table on the main TTC article. Resolute 16:39, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Lies. It will expand, every year. A graph or sidebar is useless if there are no numbers. (LAz17 (talk) 13:56, 13 June 2009 (UTC)).


 * Delete convert to a graph and summarise in a section at Toronto Transit Commission. I don't see the need to keep the title as a redirect, but if it is kept it and the pages that currently redirect here should point to the merged section. Thryduulf (talk) 21:00, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above and WP:NOT. I do not support redirect as an unlikely search time. LibStar (talk) 07:42, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: The redirect may be necessary because this page does have some links. Sebwite (talk) 14:00, 17 June 2009 (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.