Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wheel tax


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The result was   keep. A trout for the nominator, for both not proposing a policy-based reason for deletion, but rather a maintiance one, and for explicitly stating that alternatives to deletion were not explored. AfD is not for cleanup. The Bushranger One ping only 08:12, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Wheel tax

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Sill no references after 5 years Wayne Jayes (talk) 05:07, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Have you conducted a WP:BEFORE search on this topic? I found an in-depth reference on the first page of the gnews results for this topic . 109.77.247.13 (talk) 08:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

No, but the Afd had the desired effect, thank you. Wayne Jayes (talk) 10:17, 31 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep The nominator tells us plainly that he has not followed the due process of WP:BEFORE and there is no shortage of references in the search links above. AFD is not cleanup. Andrew (talk) 12:37, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:BEFORE is not optional. Process seriously flawed on this nomination, and this article may be fixable. There are WP:RS. --Jersey92 (talk) 14:13, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - Seems the nom didn't bother searching for anything prior to nomination, Plenty of sources -    . – Davey 2010  •  (talk)  14:47, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:50, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:50, 31 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Very notable municipal topic. And Waynejaynes, WP:BEFORE is there to put the burden on the nominator to make sure they have a good nomination being brought up; AfD is not cleanup.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 21:44, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Nominator could easily have found a ref if they had tried! Warren (talk) 22:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep yes but at the same time it is good to challenge articles which lack references, since it brings more eyes and minds to an issue, and invariably results in an improved encyclopedia; so I am thinking whether a nominator must necessarily jump through numerous hurdles before proposing deletion; if an article has not had any references for five years, AfD it.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 19:56, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
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