Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by length of expressways


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  18:37, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

List of countries by length of expressways

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I have reported this page to helpdesk but unfortunetly with no effects. Despite this article is not updated, in it there is a total mess.

Generally these data are from 2013 but some countries are more actualized ans some fewer. Title of the article is different than its content (expressways or motorways?).

This page has got very few watchlister and has been edited most probably by a lot of inexperienced IP users. According to 640278601 version Lithuania has got 417 km length of expressways and 6.40 per square but according to actual Lithuania has 312km and 4.78 per square (fewer than Albania) - what happen?

Data about Spain most probably also are wrong or not exactly. Spain has got more expressways than France and Germany expressways if Includes autopistas and autovías but normally Spain has got much fewer motorways.

What is sense about per capita x 1,000? In this case Norway is lower ranked than China. Dawid2009 (talk) 20:27, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. clpo13(talk) 20:44, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. clpo13(talk) 20:44, 24 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete for an entirely different reason: pure subjectivity. Expressway redirects to Limited-access road. National examples are demonstrated and vary considerably in their features (they may or may not have at-grade interchanges, for example), so if we take one country's expressways and compare them to another's its meaningless. Moreover, several national examples (Germany, e.g.), expressways or limited access roads do not include, and rank below, the Autobahns, which are the analog of US Interstate highways, which apparently are expressways in the US (although that term in the US is fairly regional, because in the California expressway is used for multi-laned axial streets like Foothill Expressway, and many of roads in California_County_Routes_in_zone_G that are used to go between freeways or to avoid them). Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:46, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
 * So what we have to do with List of countries by road network size ? Dawid2009 (talk) 16:08, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
 * If it were nominated, I'd think about it - at least all "roads" of any type are included which at least makes it an apples to apples comparison, but whether it's useful, encyclopedic, or maintainable are issues I would have to think more about. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per Carlossuarez46. As an aside, this page seems like it would be a nightmare to keep updated. –Fredddie™ 23:22, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I don't urdenstand why this article include Senegal then List of countries by road network size include Quata, Ethiopia, Trinidad and Thobago, Kazakhstan, Madagascar (and Hong Kong). These 5 countries there aren't include here and valual of the expressway's length aren't the same each other in these articles. Dawid2009 (talk) 09:57, 29 August 2016 (UTC)


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