Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/County Municipal Roads


 * 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 Delete. Essjay  ( Talk )  09:44, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

County Municipal Roads

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1) is nothing more than a partial list 2) doesn't even clearly indicate what the contents of list are or even where 3) the only source listed is a map--not even the publisher or year 4) there is no encyclopedic information provided about the listed roads and it is very unlikely that much more could realistically be said about the roads older ≠ wiser 13:34, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * To elaborate a bit more, such a listing might perhaps be appropriate for an individual county article or as a subarticle related to the county, but there is nothing that intrinsically links the roads in one county with the roads of another county. I can recognize that the roads are in Michigan and the list could in theory be renamed to at least indicate the location, but I have no idea what a County Municipal Road is and there is no definition provided. older ≠ wiser 13:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete AFAIK, by the guidelines, county highways aren't automatically notable, only state and federal ones are. BTW, the county in question is in Michigan. Also, it's mistitled, name of county should be in the title. Tubezone 13:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Rename to Leelanau County Municipal Roads, then there is no reason to delete.--Sandy Scott 14:23, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Except that it avoids the question of "What IS a County Municipal Road?" What is the definition? What is the criteria for inclusion? Is there any verifiable source other than a vague reference to a county road map? older ≠ wiser 15:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC) -- The Leelanau County Roads Commission makes no mention of these numbered roads. The roads are not identified as such on maps available from the county web site The National Functional Classification Map from MDOT for Leelanau County does not mention any of these numbered routes  Perhaps the route numbers might be some sort of historic designation for these roads -- but how is anyone to verify this? There is no mention at http://www.michiganhighways.org/ -- even the name, "county municipal highways" is something of an oxymoron -- counties and municipalities refer to two separate and distinct tiers of local government in Michigan. As it stand now, this entire list reeks of unverifiable original research. older ≠ wiser 16:10, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article is not limited to one county, as there are 27 other Michigan counties with this type of numbering system, so this opens the field to documenting them, and creating a more complete article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.247.20.21 (talk) 17:49, 16 December 2006 (UTC).
 * Delete as non-notable and boring as a list of telephone poles, mailboxes, driveways or potholes. We have never had a guideline that says county roads are inherently worthy of articles. No sources to show any are notable enough to be in Wikipedia. Edison 21:23, 16 December 2006 (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.