Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BosWash


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The result was   keep. Skomorokh, barbarian  13:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

BosWash

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Useless neologism Skrewler (talk) 01:01, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Snow Keep (or Merge - see below) - I don't even live in the northern hemisphere and I'm still familiar with the term and have used it in conversation. Unless the argument is not about the genuineness of the phrase but rather that the information is replicated or should be included elsewhere? - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:30, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete well, I do live there right in the middle and I have never heard the term. Everyone I know uses Northeast Corridor,  which  WP considers just a railroad line (or sometimes the  Boston-Washington corridor , said in full) So much for personal knowledge as an argument, in any direction.  The lede itself says that the person to whom the concept is due never used the term himself. The first section, says the group who updated it found the term "too contrived".   Of the 4 references, three are form the author who never used the word, and the 4th is titled "the Bosnywash megalopolis". I think the best course is to move the present article to Northeast Corridor, and retitle the other article Northeast Corridor (railroad line). But I'm open to correction from someone who does have references.    DGG ( talk ) 01:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - actually a merge/rename as described above to Northeast Corridor seems an appropriate solution. - DustFormsWords (talk) 02:46, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep It kind of dates back about a generation, so I can understand if people haven't heard of it, but it's still in use and .  Basically, Herman Kahn's point was that urban sprawl was creating a situation where one would drive from Boston to Washington and run into one city after another. It proved to be a popular coinage, and a handy two-syllable descriptor for the heavy concentration of American power and wealth in that particular section of the nation (between Boston and Washington are the metropolitan areas of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc.).  The problem with "Northeast Corridor" is that every nation has a northeast, whereas Boswash is unambiguous.  Mandsford (talk) 23:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 15:05, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep This is a pretty famous region of the U.S., and it should be kept as far as content goes, though I agree that it should probably be renamed Northeast Corridor (region), or something like that. (Note: I disagree with the proposals to merge it to the current page about the railroad line, as the two topics are independently notable enough to merit separate articles.) TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 18:08, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, I've heard BosNYWash, adding 148 more Google Books hits to the hundreds for BosWash. I see one source calling it a "fright concept" The Annals of Regional Science. To me this means that the term itself is discussed/analyzed in secondary sources, and this means we can keep it. Abductive  (reasoning) 02:09, 27 October 2009 (UTC)


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