Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antarctic Route 1


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The result was   Deltree (delete all).  Jerry  delusional ¤ kangaroo 16:12, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Antarctic Route 1

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Apparent hoax along with two others, listed below Grahame (talk) 03:39, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reason:


 * Delete all Almost nobody lives in Antarctica, so I doubt they have highways. Hoax. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 03:46, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect Antarctic Route 1 to McMurdo-South Pole highway which is definitely notable. I'm neutral on the others for now.  Sure, Antarctica doesn't have many permanent residents, but the infrastructure there is very important and significant.  Almost nobody lives in the oil producing camps in the Canadian arctic, but the roads to them are so important, there's an entire television series about them. --Oakshade (talk) 06:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Question. In an admittedly cursory search, I could find no sources supporting the notion that "Antarctic Route 1" is used to refer to the McMurdo-South Pole highway (and the course described in this article is quite different from that of MM-SP). Do you have any information that would justify the redirect? Deor (talk) 12:43, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not finding anything official referring to "Antarctic Route 1" but there are a few blogs that colloquially refer to it as such. Nobody is advocating an article with such a title, but it is in line with Wikipedia practice and consensus to have redirects of non-official and commonly used terms to the officially termed articles. --Oakshade (talk) 04:41, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Redirect per Oakshade, as that is clearly notable. The route numbers are primarily whimsical as they serve negligible navigational purpose. I couldn't find enough information about the other two roads to consider them notable. --Dhartung | Talk 07:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect per above  Monster Under Your Bed  (talk) 09:39, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect Route 1 as per above. I didn't even know such a thing existed until this moment. The McMurdo article currently shows what appears to be a Route 1 highway sign -- however I would check to make sure that is a legitimate addition. Have no idea about the others, so no opinion about them. 23skidoo (talk) 13:45, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That "highway sign" is an image created by the user who added it to the article. Hardly a reliable source, I think. Deor (talk) 14:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - I did not create or even upload that particular image. Someone else uploaded that 15 months ago, I merely included it in the article. -Naughtylittlepenguinwhore (talk) 02:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 23skidoo and I were referring to the image in McMurdo-South Pole highway, not the one in the article under discussion here. I simply doubt that that (Photoshop?) image justifies the redirect that's been suggested. Deor (talk) 02:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete and oppose redirect as there isn't sufficient sourcing to verify that the term is an official designation or even a common nickname -- Whpq (talk) 17:31, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. And Category:Antarctic Routes as well. MSGJ 11:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


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