AARoads:Deletion requests/Archive 1
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Templates
- Template:New York State Route 135,Template:Interstate 91 extension; The templates were broken and I simply added a maplink to the affected pages and carried over the data. JJBers (talk) 02:12, 20 September 2023 (EDT)
List of ring roads
Deleted with unanimous consent. --Rschen7754 17:23, 24 November 2023 (EST)
List of ring roads Similar to the list of toll roads article above, this article is long due to the number of ring roads listed. There is no need for a list article like this, the category for ring roads is sufficient. Ran4sh (talk) 22:21, 10 November 2023 (EST)
- I don't agree with the list of toll roads rationale, however I have to say Delete because there is no objective criteria of what a ring road is, especially in the US. There are instances where three freeways are strung together to be a ring road. That's the sort of original research that is not good for this wiki. --Rschen7754 22:26, 10 November 2023 (EST)
- Delete - This list is poor quality and consists of questionable entries which combine multiple roads to form a “ring road”. I feel a category may be better to group together single roads that are a beltway/ring road, such as Capital Beltway. Dough4872 22:42, 10 November 2023 (EST)
- Delete per Rschen7754. There's too much original research for this list to be viable. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 16:58, 12 November 2023 (EST)
- Delete per above. –Fredddie™ 12:38, 18 November 2023 (EST)
Template:Streets in Edmonton
The result of the discussion was delete. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 00:54, 27 November 2023 (EST)
Most of the streets in this navbox aren't within the project's scope, and I think we got rid of all of the "roads in <city>" type of navboxes a while ago, so even if we took out the redlinks I don't think this would be worth keeping. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 00:47, 13 November 2023 (EST)
Road hierarchy, List of roads and highways, Route number, Highway shield, Highway systems by country
TheCatalyst31's proposal passes and will be implemented. --Rschen7754 17:43, 25 November 2023 (EST)
These articles all have significant overlap. Obviously something should be kept out of this discussion, but not 5 articles all doing similar things. --Rschen7754 17:07, 11 November 2023 (EST)
- Highway shield and route number could be merged. Keeping them separate on WP makes some sense because a lot of countries don't use shield designs to indicate route numbers, but AA is mostly US-centric even if we were to have international coverage. Ran4sh (talk) 23:02, 11 November 2023 (EST)
- My thoughts on what to do about the five articles:
- Keep Highway systems by country, and redirect List of roads and highways there. They're trying to do the same thing, and the former is doing a better job of it.
- Reduce Road hierarchy to just the content in the "General classification" section. It helps to have a general overview of types of highways, but the country-specific stuff is rehashing Highway systems by country.
- Merge Route number into Highway shield. Both articles are about the same general concept of numbering and marking highways, and there's very little useful content in Route number that isn't better suited somewhere else. (I'd be fine with a rename to "Highway marker" or something else less US-centric, but that might be a discussion for later.) TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 17:21, 12 November 2023 (EST)
- This. ⤴️ –Fredddie™ 12:41, 18 November 2023 (EST)
- I will note that I support TC31's proposal. --Rschen7754 12:45, 18 November 2023 (EST)
AARoads:Shields/Directory
Deleted. --Rschen7754 12:41, 2 December 2023 (EST)
This looks like a relic from the days of USRD when SVG was brand new that probably didn't need to come along. –Fredddie™ 12:36, 18 November 2023 (EST)
The templates in TCN7JM's comment will be deleted. Care should be taken to save one copy of each navbox somewhere (as appropriate) and orphan the templates before deleting. --Rschen7754 21:48, 26 November 2023 (EST)
There was some discussion on Discord about deleting Canadian navboxes that link to every route, but I wanted to formalize it here. Essentially, categories do a better job of linking groups of routes together than navboxes do and they don't clog up each page's Special:WhatLinksHere. Most of the offending navboxes are listed here: Category:Canada transport templates. {{Ontario Provincial Highways}} is an example. –Fredddie™ 00:23, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
- Delete - Categories better handle the need. Dough4872 05:35, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
- Delete Categories are more useful than navboxes in this case. It doesn't help that some of these (e.g.
{{Prince Edward Island provincial highways}}) include a bunch of highways that don't have separate articles, and all redirected to the same list on enwiki. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 12:47, 11 October 2023 (EDT) - Delete per above. As a point of order: do we need to tag these templates? Or post on The Interchange? --Rschen7754 16:11, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
- I don't believe we imported any of the AfD templates. This is, so far, the first real deletion discussion we've had. –Fredddie™ 17:50, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
- Noting that I vote to Keep
{{Trans-Canada}}and{{Ontario Numbered Roads}}since both are a different style of navbox. --Rschen7754 23:43, 10 November 2023 (EST)
- Delete... as long as whatever United States navboxes there are (such as
{{County roads in Florida}}) go too. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 16:25, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
Comment – To be crystal clear in what we're actually discussing, I've compiled a list of templates I think are relevant to the discussion.
{{Alberta provincial highways}}{{Halton Regional Roads}}{{MBHighways}}{{NB Highways}}{{Newfoundland and Labrador highways}}{{Niagara Regional Roads}}{{NS Roads and Highways}}{{Ontario Controlled Access Highways}}{{Ontario Provincial Highways}}, which contains...{{Ontario King's Highways}},{{Ontario Secondary Highways}}, and{{Ontario Tertiary Highways}}.{{Peel Regional Roads}}{{Prince Edward Island provincial highways}}{{Quebec Autoroutes}}{{Quebec Routes (100-199)}}{{Roads in Kawartha Lakes}}{{Roads in Vaughan}}{{Secondary Highways in Quebec (200-series)}}{{Secondary Highways in Quebec (300-series)}}{{Trans-Canada}}{{York Regional Roads}}{{YTRoads}}
A few templates in Category:Canada transport templates and subcategory Category:Ontario transport templates do not fit the description but possibly deserve scrutiny for other reasons.
{{Roads in Canada}}and{{Roads in Ontario}}just include a bolded link to the articles of the same names. Nothing else. Not entirely sure about the point of either template.{{Ontario Numbered Roads}}serves a purpose more similar to the{{County roads in Florida}}template Liliana mentioned above. It's not the same as a raw list of routes and probably warrants a separate discussion.
Please correct me if I've misjudged or missed something. TC (Eli) 16:56, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
- You missed the PEI navbox I called out in my comment. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 17:47, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
- It looks like you got the gist of the proposal. I do think one instance of the templates should be substituted somewhere so we can have a sort of completion list. To Liliana's point, I wouldn't be against adding
{{Interstates}}and{{U.S. Routes}}into the discussion. I think we got rid of the rest of the USRD navboxes before 2010. –Fredddie™ 17:50, 11 October 2023 (EDT)
AARoads:Maps/Tutorial
I've moved the page in question to AARoads:Maps/Obsolete Tutorial (as well as one subpage, which now resides at AARoads:Maps/Obsolete Tutorial/SVG maps, and both corresponding talk pages). Per BMACS' original suggestion, I've moved the GeoJSON tutorial to AARoads:Maps/Tutorial in its place, leaving a redirect behind. TC (Eli) 14:46, 4 December 2023 (EST)
Obseleted by use of interactive maps. BMACS1002 13:33, 19 November 2023 (EST)
- Redirect to AARoads:Maps/Creating a GeoJSON file from OpenStreetMap, the tutorial for our current way of making maps. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 17:03, 19 November 2023 (EST)
- Should've specified, this would be deleted so that AARoads:Maps/Creating a GeoJSON file from OpenStreetMap could be moved to that page name. BMACS1002 17:13, 19 November 2023 (EST)
- That makes sense. Delete (or archive at a different title) then. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 11:50, 30 November 2023 (EST)
- Should've specified, this would be deleted so that AARoads:Maps/Creating a GeoJSON file from OpenStreetMap could be moved to that page name. BMACS1002 17:13, 19 November 2023 (EST)
- Redirect - Per TheCatalyst31. Dough4872 17:09, 19 November 2023 (EST)
- Not sure I want an outright delete but it can be moved out of the way so that the new tutorial can take its place. --Rschen7754 02:53, 30 November 2023 (EST)
{{HWY Announcements}}
AARoads:New York/Routebox legend
Deleted. --Rschen7754 18:26, 3 December 2023 (EST)
The historic files can live on at Wikipedia. BMACS1002 17:15, 19 November 2023 (EST)
Template:MdTA facilities
Delete. --Rschen7754 22:04, 11 December 2023 (EST)
Most of the entries in this template (aside from the roads) are outside the scope of this wiki. Dough4872 12:29, 25 November 2023 (EST)
Template:NT Roads
The template will be deleted. --Rschen7754 14:07, 12 December 2023 (EST)
Per the Canadian navboxes discussion, these navboxes are to be deleted as categories better handle the need. This one got missed. Dough4872 00:45, 27 November 2023 (EST)
Geography of toll roads
This has been tied at 3-3 delete/rename for a month so I'll be the deciding vote here. I've renamed the article Toll roads by country. Yes, the article is bloated and questionably written, but I see value in having the information exist here under the assumption that it will be cleaned up eventually (likely if and when our scope expands to include more countries). As for List of toll roads, its fate warrants a separate discussion. TC (Eli) 05:30, 16 December 2023 (EST)
I'm on the fence if this should be outright deleted or rename (the current name is misleading at best) and its scope trimmed. Looking for 2nd opinions. Dave (talk) 13:57, 2 November 2023 (EDT)
- Delete. Would be better structured as part of a page summarizing the highway system of each region, or perhaps split off to something like Turnpikes of Oklahoma. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 17:34, 2 November 2023 (EDT)
- Rename to Toll roads by country. I think this could be a useful main article explaining how toll roads operate in different countries, with subarticles for individual countries that could provide more details such as Toll roads in the United States. Dough4872 18:39, 2 November 2023 (EDT)
Split.I loathe coatrack articles like this. I would hate it less if it was split into continental articles. –Fredddie™ 20:32, 2 November 2023 (EDT)- Rename per Dough, however once we officially expand to international coverage I could see the page being split. --Rschen7754 14:04, 3 November 2023 (EDT)
- Will also note that we have List of toll roads. --Rschen7754 14:05, 10 November 2023 (EST)
- Delete both Geography of toll roads and List of toll roads. Ran4sh (talk) 16:15, 10 November 2023 (EST)
- Rename and do a whole lot of cleanup. An article about how toll roads work around the world isn't a bad thing to have, and this article is a decent start, but it needs a lot of work to get there. (In particular, the sections that are just lists of toll roads need to be completely rewritten.) TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 16:55, 12 November 2023 (EST)
Blow it up and start overTemplate:Saskatchewan Provincial Highways
The template was deleted. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 20:43, 17 December 2023 (EST)
Also was missed in the initial round above. --Rschen7754 13:53, 2 December 2023 (EST)
Template:Ontario Highway Templates
The template will be deleted. Dough4872 19:52, 17 December 2023 (EST)
Most of these entries have been deleted. --Rschen7754 18:56, 3 December 2023 (EST)
Template:BCHighways
Delete once the template is orphaned. --Rschen7754 23:31, 20 December 2023 (EST)
Got missed in the above discussions. --Rschen7754 01:29, 2 December 2023 (EST)
- Delete - Per rationale in previous discussion. Dough4872 07:02, 2 December 2023 (EST)
- Delete per the previous discussions. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 22:53, 20 December 2023 (EST)
Category:Canadian metropolitan area highway templates
Delete once the templates are orphaned and any categorization needed is done. --Rschen7754 23:31, 20 December 2023 (EST)
This nomination includes all templates in this category. Per the previous deletion requests (categories being more useful than navboxes in these cases) - also, many entries are city streets with questionable notability. --Rschen7754 12:33, 2 December 2023 (EST)
- Delete - Do not need these. Dough4872 19:15, 2 December 2023 (EST)
- Delete - those have even less of a purpose than the highway templates, and I've been actively removing them from pages when bluelinking. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 16:59, 9 December 2023 (EST)
- Categorize (if possible) and delete. –Fredddie™ 22:34, 9 December 2023 (EST)
List of Gatineau roads
The result of the discussion was delete, 4–0. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 21:01, 23 December 2023 (EST)
Just like the {{Gatineau Roads}} template that is currently nominated, this is merely a collection of red links, and I chose not to bluelink it during my Québec run as I felt it was out of scope. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 17:03, 9 December 2023 (EST)
- Delete per nom. --Rschen7754 17:22, 9 December 2023 (EST)
- Delete - Do not need this list. Dough4872 20:59, 9 December 2023 (EST)
- Delete. Those routes that have a numbered route in parentheses, I wouldn't mind if they redirected to said route. Then those redirects and A-5 and A-50 should be tagged in the Gatineau category if they are not already. –Fredddie™ 22:32, 9 December 2023 (EST)
Wikipedia titles of Michigan and Kansas pages
The result of the discussion was keep. Dough4872 21:51, 28 December 2023 (EST)
I'd like to gauge the idea of deleting the redirects that we created when we moved Michigan and Kansas articles. Several of these are listed on Special:DoubleRedirects. Since there are several hundred redirects, I'm not going to tag them. This would only apply to page names with these formats:
- M-x (Michigan highway)
- K-x (Kansas highway)
- X-x (Michigan county highway)
- I am leaning delete, though I can see the utility of keeping them. –Fredddie™ 21:40, 14 December 2023 (EST)
- Keep - Redirects are cheap. Dough4872 23:02, 15 December 2023 (EST)
- I see no reason not to keep them. Redirects are cheap, as was already said. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 00:03, 16 December 2023 (EST)
- Keep. No reason to delete these while allowing the other straggling redirects that break our naming conventions. TC (Eli) 12:39, 16 December 2023 (EST)
- Keep. Redirects are cheap, and these titles have a lot of inbound links that we'd have to put in the effort to clean up. Not to mention it might confuse new readers who are used to the Wikipedia format. (Speaking of putting in effort, it might be nice to get an equivalent of DoubleRedirectBot up and running.) TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 17:19, 17 December 2023 (EST)
Template:Waterloo Regional Roads
The template was deleted. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 21:32, 4 January 2024 (EST)
Another Canadian regional road template that got missed in the above discussions. Dough4872 09:40, 21 December 2023 (EST)
SK shield templates
The templates were deleted. Dough4872 22:09, 14 January 2024 (EST)
Both {{Jct}} and {{Infobox road}} correctly display Saskatchewan shields, so these are not necessary. They're also already unused, which they might have been on import from enwiki. –Fredddie™ 21:32, 31 December 2023 (EST)
Template:Infrastructure
The template was deleted. TC (Eli) 19:00, 26 January 2024 (EST)
Most of these items are out of scope. --Rschen7754 01:59, 11 January 2024 (EST)
AARoads:New York/Vital articles
The page was deleted. Dough4872 21:43, 6 February 2024 (EST)
Not maintained and there will presumably be better ways of getting this information. --Rschen7754 20:09, 23 January 2024 (EST)
Mexican Federal Highway 18
The article was deleted. Dough4872 21:02, 28 February 2024 (EST)
I don't think this highway exists. The only source is to a general Mexican highway map that doesn't seem to include a Highway 18 (I couldn't find it, at least, and there's no section number in the citation). The article itself doesn't have any information about which cities or states the highway serves. I couldn't find any other evidence that this exists; Google Maps does appear to mark a road in Baja California Sur as Federal Highway 18, but it's unpaved and isn't signed in Street View, so I don't think that's actually a federal highway. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 21:00, 14 February 2024 (EST)
Move to appropriate state highway location, the map at [1] hints that the federal highway 18 in Google Maps/Guia Roji is actually state. --Rschen7754 21:35, 14 February 2024 (EST)- Delete - No evidence this route exists and article provides no context. Dough4872 23:36, 18 February 2024 (EST)
- Delete – We can always undelete. –Fredddie™ 21:12, 19 February 2024 (EST)
Mexican Federal Highway 26
The article was deleted. Dough4872 20:45, 3 March 2024 (EST)
Another one that I don't think is a real highway. No information on where it is, it doesn't seem to be on the map cited, it's not listed in our sources for Mexico, and I can't find any other sources to verify it exists. Possibly a mix-up with Federal Highway 36 based on the article history, which already has its own article. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 20:19, 18 February 2024 (EST)
- Delete. Did you mean Mexican Federal Highway 36? LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 20:25, 18 February 2024 (EST)
- Delete I haven't been able to find anything either. Unlike enwiki, deletion requests shouldn't be a death sentence; if we find something one day (or if the government decides to use the number one day), we can reverse course. --Rschen7754 20:28, 18 February 2024 (EST)
- Delete - No evidence this route exists and article provides no context. Dough4872 23:36, 18 February 2024 (EST)
- Delete – We can always undelete. –Fredddie™ 21:12, 19 February 2024 (EST)
Mexican Federal Highway 28
The article was deleted. Dough4872 00:36, 4 March 2024 (EST)
I found another one - no location information, one source that's a general map of Mexico, doesn't show up in gmaps, and I can't find any sources. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 00:35, 19 February 2024 (EST)
List of Suffolk County, New York road proposals
The result of the discussion was redirect to List of county routes in Suffolk County, New York to preserve the page history. Dough4872 15:01, 28 May 2024 (EDT)
This would be better addressed on pages like List of county routes in Suffolk County, New York (1–25). --Rschen7754 13:04, 4 May 2024 (EDT)
List of highways in Genesee County, New York
Deleted. --Rschen7754 12:31, 27 May 2024 (EDT)
In the past we have preferred categories rather than lists like these, since they are more work and lead to content forking. --Rschen7754 13:14, 4 May 2024 (EDT)
- Delete - Categories better handle the need. Dough4872 13:57, 4 May 2024 (EDT)
- Delete per the single point of truth rule; duplicative content (though before deletion we should verify that there isn't a scrap of history here or there in the article that somehow didn't make it to the main articles). —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 16:58, 4 May 2024 (EDT)
- Comment I have no strong opinion if this is better handled by a category or a list page. But no need for both, so pick one or the other.Dave (talk) 01:30, 5 May 2024 (EDT)
Template:Interstates
I'll rework the template to remove the routes per Dough4872 and Fredddie's suggestions below. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 14:53, 29 May 2024 (EDT)
Same reasoning as the Canadian navboxes, something that could be better done with categories, and wouldn't clog Special:WhatLinksHere. It was also discussed on Discord. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 06:33, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
The result of the discussion was delete. I've begun replacing categories with navboxes, but it's a process; there are hundreds of these things. I completed I-10 before closing this discussion, so take a look at I-10's category if you wanna see how I've begun organizing it. Other admins, feel free to step in and help if you want. TC (Eli)
Similarly to Template:Interstates above, something that could be better done with categories and wouldn't clog Special:WhatLinksHere. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 06:35, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
- Delete - While I see the usefulness of these templates, the trend on here seems to favor categories over navboxes. Dough4872 19:53, 6 May 2024 (EDT)
- Reluctant delete, while I do like the templates, they were deleted for many systems with only 1 auxiliary, thus limiting the consistency. --Rschen7754 14:50, 7 May 2024 (EDT)
- Don't Delete I can see why we could eliminate some of them, but not all of them. This template is useful for interstates that have lots of auxiliary routes, like I-90 and I-95. TheBNSFTracker (talk) 15:55, 6 June 2024 (EDT)
Near-empty templates: Roads in Canada and Roads in Ontario
The templates were deleted. Dough4872 22:02, 30 June 2024 (EDT)
Reason:AARoads:Deletion_requests/Archive_1#Canadian_navboxes (They've got nothing of value.） — Preceding unsigned comment added by OrdinaryGiraffe (talk • contribs) 01:38, 11 June 2024 (EDT) (UTC)
Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation
The result of the discussion was deleted. –Fredddie™ 19:10, 1 July 2024 (EDT)
The cateogry is redundant with it's child category, Category:All articles with links needing disambiguation, which has a more common name and has some templates the parent category (Articles, without All), does not. However, some categories in Articles will need to be moved over. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 19:44, 11 June 2024 (EDT)
- Question: Should I transfer over the missing categories and main article template, or wait until the discussion closes? Also, adding Category:Articles lacking in-text citations to the nomination, for the same reason. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 19:57, 11 June 2024 (EDT)
- Edit: I think the pages should be redirected instead of deleted, to deal with potential external or Talk namespace links. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 20:38, 11 June 2024 (EDT)
AARoads:Canada/Structure
Template:USBRS
The template was deleted. Dough4872 12:24, 13 July 2024 (EDT)
Ultimately out of scope. --Rschen7754 21:41, 28 June 2024 (EDT)
AARoads:Canada/Naming
The page was deleted. Dough4872 10:38, 31 July 2024 (EDT)
Redundant to the section in AA:NC. Dough4872 13:36, 13 July 2024 (EDT)
AARoads:Canada/standards
The page was deleted. Dough4872 10:41, 31 July 2024 (EDT)
Redundant to AA:NC and AA:MURA. Dough4872 13:38, 13 July 2024 (EDT)
U.S. Route 41W in Georgia
The redirect U.S. Route 41W in Georgia redirects to U.S. Route 41 in Georgia#History. However, there is no information on that page concerning this theoretical highway. I remember seeing somewhere that a US 41W either existed or what simply proposed for the state; however, there's no information there. If anything gets added to the page, then, a U.S. Route 41W (Georgia) would need to be started and have categories added to it. NewGirl4U (Morriswa on Wikipedia) 02:30, 22 July 2024 (EDT)
Done@Freddie: Could you close this discussion and the one below it (the misspelled article)? Also, for future reference, am I or other users without the admin user right allowed to close these discussions once the article is deleted?OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 23:01, 11 August 2024 (EDT)
@Fredddie: Let me try the ping again.OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 23:03, 11 August 2024 (EDT)
Virginia State Rout 670 (Brunswick County)
No pages link to it, and I am pretty sure myself or someone else only created this as a result of a typo. (Markkos1992) (talk) 13:34, 1 August 2024 (EDT)
U.S. Route 421 Business (Gate City, Virgina)
Should not need a discussion, duplicate page due to Virginia being spelled wrong. No pages link here at this point. Markkos1992 (talk) 20:51, 31 August 2024 (EDT)
AARoads:Canada/Ontario/Assessment
The page was deleted. Dough4872 19:35, 21 September 2024 (EDT)
Superseded by AARoads:Assessment. --Rschen7754 14:38, 6 September 2024 (EDT)
List of road types by features
Moved to annex. --Rschen7754 22:13, 1 October 2024 (EDT)
I'm not entirely sure what this list is supposed to be so I don't know what it's utility is. Is this worth keeping? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fredddie (talk • contribs) 02:39, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- If we keep it at all, it should go to the annex. --Rschen7754 23:37, 6 August 2024 (EDT)
- Move to annex - This looks like information that could be better suited for the annex namespace. Dough4872 23:43, 6 August 2024 (EDT)
- Support a move to the annex, but not a deletion, as this might someday be useful if it get's significantly improved/reorganized. OrdinaryGiraffe (talk) 22:55, 11 August 2024 (EDT)