Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lowestoft Corporation Tramways


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Lowestoft Corporation Tramways

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contested prod. Lacks notability. Article lists a mention in a single book but I'm not finding much else, doesn't meet the "significant coverage in 3rd party sources" requirement of WP:N  RadioFan (talk) 02:02, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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 * Keep (unless someone can find a good merge destination). Quick glance through Google Books suggests more information is to be found there. A tram network that ran for thirty years can reasonably be presumed historically notable. (Certainly I can't image any modern town-wide public transport network that has run for the last three decades failing notability.) Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 12:27, 12 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep as per Chris Neville-Smith or it could be merged/renamed Lowestoft Corporation Transport the operator, but that doesnt exist yet! MilborneOne (talk) 18:14, 12 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Sources that I have found refer to Lowestoft Corporation Tramways as the original operator, and that name also appears on the sides of the trams in all the photographs that I have seen. Lowestoft Corporation Transport as a name looks to have been adopted later when buses began to replace the trams, and appeared on the sides of the buses. Therefore I don't think that an article rename would be a suitable outcome, and neither a merger as I was intending to add a tramway route diagram to the article. Maybe when a Lowestoft Corporation Transport article is created they can cross refer. Efficacy (talk) 20:00, 12 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep I think it will expand to be a useful article if given a little time.Scillystuff (talk) 20:17, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per Chris Neville-Smith. We have articles on modern tramway systems that are smaller and have run for far fewer than 30 years with no question of lack of notability. By the same standards this system is easily notable. Thryduulf (talk) 01:03, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep -- This is a legitimate history of transport article. Peterkingiron (talk) 00:13, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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