Wikipedia:Featured and good topic removal candidates/State highways in Marquette County, Michigan/archive1

State highways in Marquette County, Michigan
The geographic basis for this topic is being deprecated. Instead, classification of topics by highway is preferred.  Imzadi  1979   →   16:48, 19 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I Object the removal. I do not think it is an issue. Leave Message, Yellow Evan home
 * The problem is M-28 is up for FT, and this is in the way as it duplicates a fair bit. It's one or the other, and in choices like that I believe that the roadway should take precedence over the county. Reluctant Remove. - The Bushranger Return fire Flank speed 23:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose remove. I think that the two topics can exist simultaneously. If the new "style" is to do articles by highway instead of geographical location, well so be it. But this list can still be featured. There is lots of overlap for, say, video game series or TV series/seasons/shows. This topic is well defined and can stay. &mdash;Goodtimber (walk/talk) 04:58, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Remove - I think this one is slightly better but consensus seems to be against it, and we certainly can't have both. Goodtimber makes various assertions that the levels of overlap here are comparable to in other topics. That is absolutely not the case. 75% of the M-28 topic is also in this one. The remaining article is under 9k long. If this is not "excessive overlap", I don't know what is. The video games overlap he alludes to is that there is a 50% overlap between the Half-Life 2 titles and The Orange Box topics, but the smaller of those two topics having 45k of unique articles (i.e. 5 times as much). Furthermore, both the Valve topics seem like very natural constructions, whereas these is some debate as to whether this one is "artificial". Finally, no TV topic has more than one article overlapping with another TV topic - rst20xx (talk) 14:26, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Remove - The nominator summed it up perfectly.  Dough 48  72  03:42, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm one of those editors who thinks the "state highway by county" topics are a bit artificial, with the reasoning that it requires the creation of an article - in this case List of state highways in Marquette County, Michigan - that likely would not exist if it wasn't needed to "create" the topic. OTOH, I'm also one of those editors that's a fan of topics based around a single highway, like the proposed M-28 topic and the existing NY 20N and NY 20SY topics in New York. I see all of those as natural topics in that they bring together related articles by way of an already existing article that should, without question, exist. Grouping by route also just makes more sense and is more appealing to me than grouping by an area such as a county. Thus, I say this topic should be removed to clear the way for the M-28 one to be created. –  T M F 22:51, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Close with consensus to demote - rst20xx (talk) 11:46, 16 June 2010 (UTC)