Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/U.S. Highway 47

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was redirect to List of U.S. Highways. – ABCD 21:40, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

U.S. Highway 47
Full text is "There is no United States Highway 47. However, some signs in Montana for Montana State Route 47 mistakenly carry the United States highway shield." There has never been a US 47. --SPUI (talk) 08:08, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. Mike H 08:15, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Add note to List of U.S. Highways and delete. Gazpacho 09:32, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * That page already says "There has never been a U.S. Highway 47." The piece about signs in Montana is non-notable; that kind of thing happens everywhere. --SPUI (talk) 11:33, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 10:22, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, if accurate. If someone is reading U.S. Highway 46 and U.S. Highway 48 and wonders if there is a U.S. Highway 47, they will load this article. Why would you want to make them find something less useful than the stub that exists now? Is the wikipedia really improved by removing this handful of potentially useful bytes from it?  ~leif &#9786; HELO 21:42, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Redirect to List of U.S. Highways. We don't have articles for the other non-existant US highways, so why should we have one for this? (vote changed, see below) --Carnildo 23:34, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep It is notable that there is a U.S. Highway 46 and U.S. Highway 48 but not a U.S. Highway 47. Klonimus 09:44, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with List of unused U.S. highway numbers or similar. I agree with Leif's reasoning when he argues against deletion, but I do not think that each and every unused highway number should have a separate article. Sjakkalle 06:51, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Simply not-notable. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 19:06, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to List of unused U.S. highway numbers, otherwise this will set a precedent for creating individual articles for everything which does not exist. A reputable source should also be cited for the statement "some signs in Montana for Montana State Route 47 mistakenly carry the United States highway shield."  --GRider\talk 19:17, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * There's a photo of a shield in Montana at . It's just not notable though. --SPUI (talk) 20:48, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * List of unused U.S. highway numbers? Why?  There are approximately 730 unused highway numbers, and of those, maybe four could have even one sentence written about them. --Carnildo 22:09, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of U.S. Highways, there's nothing to merge. --iMb~Meow 19:31, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Not a bad idea actually. I'll change by vote to redirect. --SPUI (talk) 20:48, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above. Radiant_* 08:24, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect the existing information, but keep the web page with new information re: reason for no US 47. Sure there is currently no US 47, but there have been at least suggestions made for what should become such (the most common is redesignating US 45W and US 49E as 47, plus a connecting route)
 * Suggestions by who? It doesn't look like there's been any official state or AASHTO plan. --SPUI (talk) 23:11, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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