Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Basketweave


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   merge to Ontario Highway 401. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 16:08, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

The Basketweave

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I hate to do this, because I was hoping to upgrade this article to be better. Unfortunately, I've been confounded by the absolute lack of sources on this topic. Aside from very brief mentions on Self-published roadgeek sites, a couple traffic camera names, and a label on a mapbook, there is no coverage of this. It's just a fancy highway transfer, variants of which appear on any local-express freeway setup.

So, with notability in question and few if any reliable sources to validate it, I'm nominating this for deletion.  Floydian  τ ¢  02:51, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - Lack of sources, trivial. Still warrants coverage in the individual road articles.  Dough 48  72  02:55, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Indeed. The actual "Basketweave" transfer on Highway 401 is mentioned and pictured in that article. -  Floydian  τ ¢  03:11, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  03:37, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me  03:37, 20 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge most of the salvageable content to Ontario Highway 401, the section "Highway 427" to Ontario Highway 427, and the section "Outside of Canada" to the relevant articles about the A2 motorway (Netherlands) and A4 motorway (Netherlands). Then, redirect to Ontario Highway 401, or reformulate it as a disambiguation page if warranted. Mind  matrix  15:33, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: there are some references naming the basketweave, for example The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I, Highway 401 Corridor Traffic Systems Management Study: Problem identification, and many of the 208 mentions in Toronto Star archives (eg - Road closings and transit changes in the GTA for the coming week in 2006). Mind  matrix  15:33, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Do any of these actually discuss it, or just make passing mention? I just used my Toronto Star Archive access to check for Basketweave AND "Highway 401" and got 10 results. Of these, about half were regarding traffic closures. Another quarter regarding homes for sale. One or two were regarding "trouble spots" on the 401, of which the Basketweave was named as one of them (this appears to be the case for the traffic management document as well). I honestly hope we do find something tangible, but my outlook is bleak. -  Floydian  τ ¢  19:05, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I just sampled a few when I was searching for refs, and only the abstracts at that, so I'm not sure. If nothing else, these could be used to support a claim that the name is used in traffic reports. The MTO is likely to have a few reports discussing or mentioning the basketweave in its library. (Even if such sources are find, the article should still be merged.) Mind  matrix  20:39, 24 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It certainly merits mention in the highway articles, but I'd have to agree that it probably doesn't really need its own standalone article. Merge whatever's salvageable and referenceable to the highways themselves. Bearcat (talk) 20:25, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge into Highway 401. --  Admr Boltz  00:28, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge anything possible to ON 401's article. T  C  N7 JM  01:19, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment FYI, Highway 401 already mentions this feature... but I won't be adding information myself to Highway 427, since there would have to be some source calling it a "basketweave". The European roads can probably use any information they can get. -  Floydian  τ ¢  02:56, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
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