Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places where driving while talking on a mobile phone is illegal

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The result of the debate was No consensus. brenneman (t) (c) 00:52, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

List of places where driving while talking on a mobile phone is illegal
Hopelessly unmaintainable list. Rob Church Talk 15:06, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Another inane list. --Phroziac (talk) 15:08, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hopelessly unmaintainable. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 15:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * weak Keep I don't see this breaking any rules and it could be useful --Quasipalm 15:55, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not encyclopedic --Joelito 16:06, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is silly. Pilatus 16:09, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Mobile Phone subsection Driving controversy --Grcampbell 16:36, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment As of now, redirecting to subsections is not possible, afaik.  ral  315  17:21, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I talked about merging the details with Mobile_Phone#Driving_controversy, not redirecting, though that could also be ok... --Grcampbell 18:19, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, failing that merge as above. I think having a detailed list would clutter that page too much. Kappa 16:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no need to merge or redirect.  ral  315  17:21, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, merging would be fine. Trollderella 17:42, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for the reasons cited above. Dottore So 17:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per Grcampbell. --Idont Havaname 19:25, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Grcampbell or just keep. The main charge here is unmaintainability. But it is eminently maintainable: there are only a couple hundred countries in the world (at any given time), and in most of those, there's no explicit law against mobile-phoning-while-driving. That said, it would be better in context in the main article in its present state and could be spun out if it gets long. -Splash 19:35, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Hopelessly unmaintainable. In the States, AFAIK, laws like this can be as small as town-to-town. Any notable national/international trends should be reported on the in "mobile phone" article. Sdedeo 20:03, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge tiny lists where reasonable. Christopher Parham (talk) 20:13, 2005 August 29 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unmaintainable. ManoaChild 20:39, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment:I would suggest that merging is a mistake. This list will be huge if people start adding to it. Huge. Thus, it will need to be split off into a seperate article soon enough anyway. If it isn't kept seperately, it shouldn't be kept at all.--Scimitar parley 20:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unmaintainable and not encyclopedic. Groeck 21:22, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge to any article thought suitable. Perfectly encyclopedic and I can't imagine why it would be thought to be remotely unmaintainable; the criteria are clear--that there should be a statute against operating a mobile phone while driving in some circumstances within a jurisdiction.  The appropriate section of Mobile phone, as suggested, would be okay. --Tony Sidaway Talk  21:31, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Lists suck. Jachin 22:30, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (or merge) lists do normally suck, but actually this one is quite informative. Frankly, Sdedeo the fact that the US does not choose to have a nation-wide law on the issue isn't a reason to delete a list of info about the rest of the world --Doc (?) 23:24, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Grcampbell - Mike "Mig" 23:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, could be useful. Andrew pmk | Talk 01:00, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Useful and topical list. Needs a better title, though. 23skidoo 05:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, silly list. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 08:47, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * RENAME and REWORK Define place??? Municipalities is no good, since there are too many. Roodog2k 01:00, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Lapinmies 23:09, 3 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.