Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vehicle registration plates of the United States for 1901


 * 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 keep. There appears to be a general consensus against deleting. However the merge proposals were insufficiently specific, so I am going to call this a Keep and discussion about a potential merge can continue on the article talk pages. Ad Orientem (talk) 03:03, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

Vehicle registration plates of the United States for 1901

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The article has no content. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 04:05, 23 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment - This article, and the 1902 version, does say something - it says that New York required car owners to produce their own plates, and that the other states had nothing. Whether this is sufficient to warrant an article, I cannot say - but removing it will imply either that New York started their plate organization in 1903, or that the states that did start their organization in 1903 started it earlier than that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NoCOBOL (talk • contribs) 06:16, 23 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment I disagree with deletion. There is content in both articles, and there is far more content than many other starter articles. Just because these articles will never be filled with a picture of the license plate from all 50 states is not a reason for deletion. This is part of a series of 119 articles that show the annual history of license plates in the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia. To remove this article would remove the early history of the automobile industry, individual state history of how vehicle license plates evolved across the country, and what has become an area of collector activity. Zcarstvnz (talk) 08:34, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 08:53, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 08:53, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 08:53, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Draftify The OP has jumped the gun a bit as the page was only created 12 days ago, would recommend moving to draftspace for article creator to work on it before moving pack to article space. Nightfury 09:08, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge everything from 1901 to 1905; rather than having a table showing no actual plate designs and indicating the need for owners to supply their own, have a table indicating the date at which these requirements were initiated. bd2412  T 15:45, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge per bd2412. There's simply no sign of this being a topic that justifies per-year articles for these dates. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 18:39, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:28, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge for the early 1900s ones. I think it might be better if we have one page for all years and then create some sort of a template that contains all of them. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 05:42, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep The article has been on line for less than 30 days, and some additional material has been added since the article was listed here. Leaving the article will give other editors the ability to add new information and keep the series of articles intact back to its true beginnings rather than try and force the material into a merged article. Zcarstvnz (talk) 08:16, 3 February 2019 (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.