Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/I-95 exit list

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Mailer Diablo 00:35, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I-95 exit list

A list of highway exits. That's it. Wikipedia not being a list of indescriminate information, I say toss this. Was PRODed, but tag removed on the grounds "...exit lists encouraged, per WP:IH". WP:IH is not policy nor even guideline: it's Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways, and the "encouragement" is a single sentence inserted into it. Calton | Talk 05:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete, I agree -- Ned Scott 05:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete: Useless list, see WP:NOT. --Hetar 05:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. There's some WP policy that mentions not including bus stations and this is along that line, although there are an awful lot of insignificant train stations that have entries as a result of a WP project on trains. Schizombie 06:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Pointless list. Can you not use a map for the same information? I don't believe that this list would be useful to a researcher, nor that the justification on WP:IH is valid.  (aeropagitica)  09:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

*Delete I was gonna vote merge, 'til I read the I-95 article and found the relevant information encouraged in WP:IH (bulleted list of intersections with other Interstates and Major roads) is already there. Change vote as per info from Rschen below, to Keep Jcuk 10:34, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

    • Actually, if you read further down, you will find that exit lists are encouraged. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 18:24, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Information is too cumbersome to work into the article on I-95 itself. A single article with the content is a preferable solution to splitting the content across 15 articles for I-95 in each constituent state. List is useful to a researcher; many maps do not provide this information readily. Also, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precedents says that this type of article should not be created, but due to the length of I-95, splitting the exit list off of the main article and into its own article is an appropriate and limited exception. C.Fred 13:28, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. They still sell maps, as far as I know. PJM 17:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. WP is not Mapquest. Fan1967 17:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. It's long enough for its own article, and it's a pain to split it up among the individual Interstate 95 in New York and similar pages. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 18:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per C.Fred. Comment. In its current state, the information is not particularly useful. However, if at some point the article includes a map of the road, and presents itself in an intuitive format, this information could become useful. Section-ifying the article and improving the data format would be a good start.  Cdcon  18:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways#Exit lists. Format properly please. -- Krash (Talk) 22:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete and move exit lists in to the seperate "Interstate 95 in (state)" pages. The Maine list on here is two years out of date anyway. Kirjtc2 00:46, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and if information is out of date, please correct it. Do not merge; the purpose of lists is to keep this information separate from main articles. Lists of this sort function as appendixes, an important and valuable function in reference works. Fg2 01:29, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep but article needs improving badly. More information on what county/town the exit is in, its mile point, anything notable about the area the exit serves, etc. Polaron 02:01, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Since the point has been raised repeatedly, yes, the article needs significant attention: formatting, adding location information (county/city), mile marker numbers, (old exit numbers for GA, FL, etc.?).... The original author is continuing to go ahead with the raw data entry. Once this discussion clears, then we'll be going in and formatting, sorting, expanding, and otherise getting the data into final form. --C.Fred 07:29, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Very badly formatted; should be split among states like Interstate 95 in New Jersey. Redirect to Interstate 95 without a merge. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 18:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
    • A single redirect, or a list of "the exit lists can be found on the following pages," so they're one click away and not two? —C.Fred (talk) 19:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge to the page on the highway, at best. Getting seriously close to violating Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Stifle 11:53, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Split into sub-pages per state and format per Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways. Mangojuice 16:44, 1 March 2006 (UTC)


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