Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of state highways in the United States shorter than one mile (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. The Bushranger One ping only 21:49, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

List of state highways in the United States shorter than one mile
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Article seems like a violation of WP:IINFO. I do not see the significance in the length of less than one mile, and US state highways in that category. There is no lead (save for a restating of the article title) and I don't think there is any additional content that could be added due to the specificness of the list. – Dream out loud (talk) 21:26, 20 February 2014 (UTC)


 * delete as unmitigatable trivia. Why cut it off at one mile? Also, I look at the lengthy Maryland listings, and I find that for the most part we're talking about unposted scraps of state-maintained roads whose existence has been deduced from a state list and whose descriptions are deduced from Google maps. The articles can't even agree one what they are: the Maryland sub-lists go by numbers, while this article counts each segment of the discontinuous routes separately. I'm also suspicious that differences in the way the states account for state maintenance of roads plays a part: it wouldn't surprise me that all those unposted roads in Maryland wouldn't even be assigned a number in many states. Mangoe (talk) 13:38, 21 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as trivia. As Mangoe says, there are major differences in how different states inventory roads, and so even a more useful sortable list that gives the length of each route would be an apple-to-goat comparison. A list of shortest signed state highways might be more useful, cutting off at an arbitrary number rather than length. Note that this argument does not apply to articles like List of state highways in Kansas shorter than one mile, which are (IMO flawed but perhaps necessary) merges of several standalone articles to satisfy deletionists. --NE2 16:54, 21 February 2014 (UTC)


 *  Comment Delete - it may be prudent to revisit Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_14. The category seems a more appropriate logistical method for indexing these routes. One mile is perhaps arbitrary, but WP:SAL, WP:LC, MOS:LIST, etc. etc. all point towards the concept that an arbitrary cut-off is not in of itself original research; what matters is that the items on the list can be verified as meeting the inclusion criteria. That said, I think a category is a better solution for quickly finding all of these routes, and quickly adding new ones. -  Floydian  τ ¢  17:40, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - trivial and arbitrary list Dave (talk) 18:25, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge - Succint list of state highways shorter than one mile. If there is any appropriate page to redirect and mege this into, it may be worth investigating. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 19:20, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. If anyone needs this information, should be able to be found in the lists of each state's highways. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 23:23, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - Unnecessary to have list of highways shorter than an arbitrary length. These lists are only useful if they are holding places for describing routes in a state that are less than a mile and would otherwise be permastubs, such as List of state highways in Maryland shorter than one mile (2–699).  Dough 48  72  01:12, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge – This is just a page listing highways that are based on arbitrary criterion (for example, all highways in the list are supposed to be less than one mile, but it looks like it's better off being a category instead). Also, the article is totally unreferenced, save for a single reference to Minnesota, and no exact lengths are given. If it's merged at all, it should be merged into List of longest state highways in the United States. Epicgenius (talk) 15:52, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * That article has issues as well, some of the same general arguments raised here in favor of deletion apply there.Dave (talk) 17:09, 24 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete &mdash; This violates WP:IINFO and there is very little context. Whether there should be state lists of this type (that is, just lists of links without context) for routes shorter than one mile can be debated elsewhere, but a national list is not necessary and not helpful.  V C  19:17, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:08, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:09, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete with the understanding that we're keeping the "less-than-one-mile" lists for each state that has one or will have one in the future. Those are actually more useful for listing highways for which the articles would otherwise be perma-stubs. T  C  N7 JM  16:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
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