Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Historical Mississippi License Plates

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. Golbez 05:56, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Historical Mississippi License Plates
Delete Minor subtopic of a subtopic of an article that should be merged with another article. Spotteddogsdotorg 02:51, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Keep These articles are useful for other users to see how state license plates have individually changed designs over the past hundred years. I think this is a worthwhile article to keep, and we shouldn't rush to delete this page. Absecon 59 04:00, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This seems as if this user is going to use it to showcase his collection of Mississippi licence plates, and it also looks like this was the reason he created the History of US and Canadian license plates entry, so my Delete vote still stands, now adding vanity into the mix. If you want to show your plates off, other than illustrating a point, get your own website. Spotteddogsdotorg 14:27, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting... I actually got the idea to create this page after seeing the image of the current Mississippi license plate that was uploaded by Spotteddogsdotorg onto the page for the state of Mississippi. I've included it on this page, and my hope is that with the addition of other images of plates and information from people with knowledge about them, we might know more about the history of license plates and license plates designs. I did not create this site for vanity purposes; I merely hope that this could be a collaborative project among many Wikipedia users. In fact, I don't have any more images of Mississippi plates to put on this page. Absecon 59 22:40, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. The history of state licence plates is encyclopedic. If you had wanted to merge the articles, why didn't you just do it? Double Blue  (Talk) 06:03, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: If the nominator did merge the articles, we'd either need a redirect (necessary only if the article title will be searched) or to preserve edit history. Otherwise, there would still be a VfD vote.  It is a mistake to fork each state's license plates.  The granularity is far too great.  Therefore, I'd say delete, partially to send the message that such forking is a bad, bad idea. Geogre 14:58, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. There can and should be articles showing historical license plates for the other 49 states too.  Kaibabsquirrel 16:15, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Interesting, if incomplete, list. Bad faith nomination by someone out to WP:POINT  SchmuckyTheCat 16:21, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Not at all a bad faith nomination. The article itself should be deleted for its vanity.  RickK 22:30, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems to be no need for this, its not a license plate encylopedia, now is it? Melvis 16:25, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * User's 15th edit, 7 of which are VfD votes. Kaibabsquirrel 21:04, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Same comment as what I said on the VfD for History of US and Canadian license plates.  --Dachannien 16:37, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It looks like some cheap guy wanting to have a website but not wanting to pay for it. ConeyCyclone 17:29, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created 17:05, 12 Jun 2005 and mostly used to vote on VfD's. Kaibabsquirrel 20:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and merge. Hohokus 18:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created 9 Jun 2005 and mostly used to vote on VfD's. Kaibabsquirrel 20:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Jinkleberries 19:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Account created 19:40, 12 Jun 2005 and mostly used to vote on VfD's. Kaibabsquirrel 20:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Votes have always been 'keep' and have been in rapid succession. 37 votes in 7 minutes.Tobycat 20:56, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete there is a page about US and Canadian license plates and it belongs there if anywhere. This is a very minor subtopic of a major topic and is Toasthaven 22:18, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * User's 60th edit. User's first ever edit was a VFD vote. Kaibabsquirrel 05:41, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep'. Trivial, but verifiable and of historic reference interest to some. -- Infrogmation 03:42, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if not turned into something worthwhile very soon. Right now about the only encyclopedic part is "The state of Mississippi began requiring its citizens to register their vehicles and display their license plates on their cars in 1912" which could easily be mentioned elsewhere. More than 3/4 of the space of the article is taken up by listing off years with no addtional information (how is 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918... encyclopedic?). A little of the info on post '77 plates may be salvageable but right now it's mostly grandular subtrivial facts on the colors used. This one's in danger of becoming mostly a collection of pictures. -R. fiend 05:34, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Dsmdgold 13:34, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Several people are interested in license plates, and the topic is encyclopedic enough. (The Encarta for instance, includes a picture of the current licence plate in each of their state factboxes) Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:37, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. All I see here are just a lsit of years and a few photos. However, what we can do is inside each State Infobox on here, we can add a section for the license plate photo and we can use that. Plus, I do think there should be an article on US license plates in general, but I do not think each state has enough information to get their own article. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 18:23, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge with US and Canadian license plates. Pburka 00:52, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Interesting, verifiable content. --Centauri 01:04, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .