Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Transportation to Coney Island


 * 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 Coney_Island. SarahStierch (talk) 20:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Transportation to Coney Island

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A close-to-useless article with a lot of irrelevant or duplicate content. The information in the Subway and Buses section already exists in Coney Island and the last paragraph in the former section saying how long it takes for each train that serves Coney Island to get to Manhattan completely violates Wikipedia's policy of not being a travel guide. The second paragraph of that section describing the lines that go there as well as the History section talking about their history are not relevant at all to Coney Island and their contents already exist in each of the lines' articles. The Bicycle section is very short and can easily be added to Coney Island if this article is deleted. The Legendary Ranger (talk) 00:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge into Transportation in New York Coney Island (probably better target). Certain large hubs have specific transportation articles, but transportation "to" somewhere is hardly notable as a standalone in 99.99% of cases ("transportation to disney world"). The New York transport article's already got a section for Long Island, among others, so this would fit nicely there. Shadowjams (talk) 05:49, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep This is obviously the same topic as Coney Island. Discussing the extent to which this should be split off or merged is a matter of ordinary editing, not deletion. Warden (talk) 07:17, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Merging and redirecting are appropriate results of AfD. My intent when nominating this article was to have it completely deleted because its content either already exists in other articles or are completely irrelevant to the subject, so there is no need to have this here, but its up to other editors to decide what should happen in the end. The Legendary Ranger (talk) 13:07, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * As LegendaryRanger says, merge is a completely appropriate conclusion of an AfD[iscussion] (you know this too Warden), and we are in fact talking about "deleting" this page by your paradigm because the article is an inappropriate "fork" from the "article" (really anchored section) of the original. Under Warden's interpretation no fork-based nominations could ever be brought to AfD, instead we'd be swimming in a sea of hardly used redirects. If someone had created this as a redirect initially nobody'd have a problem, but they didn't, hence it's at AfD. Shadowjams (talk) 20:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge to Coney Island. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:23, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Close - AfD is not meant for clean-up or whether to split or to merge articles. Bearian (talk) 21:33, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It is actually. Addressed above. Shadowjams (talk) 06:59, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * "Merge", "redirect", "split", etc. are all valid outcomes at AfD. Nominations that call for something other than deletion are speedy kept; discussions that develop WP:CONSENSUS otherwise are closed in accordance with the consensus. - The Bushranger One ping only 20:22, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge to Coney Island#Transportation. Wikipedia is not a travel guide.--Charles (talk) 21:17, 15 August 2012 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.