Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Public Transportation serving Winthrop, Mass.

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 of the debate was delete. (ESkog)^(Talk) 22:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Public Transportation serving Winthrop, Mass.

This has no notability, it also appears to be an ad from the MBTA, this is not an encyclopedic entry. Yanksox 03:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --JChap 03:25, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete definitely nn. --Bill (who is cool!) 04:20, 29 May 2006
• Delete Not notable enough for inclusion Ydam 10:11, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn Crazynas 12:13, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, nn, unencyclopedic. --Terence Ong 14:47, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. JIP | Talk 15:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Cleanup and strong keep. We need more articles on public transport.--Guinnog 23:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment Not according to this[1], also this is more of a directory than something else, like the MBTA page. Yanksox 23:34, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I saw nothing of releveance in that policy to this article. Improve the article and keep it.

• Keep. Why does someone from the Boston area want to remove so many Boston pages? This entry gives information on the transportation in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Just because it lists prices does not necessarily constitute as an advertisement.

Comment When I need information on the T, I go to the T's website. This is not an encylopedic entry. Yanksox 03:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment It's not an ad for the T, and it's not an indiscriminate collection of information. Fg2 08:01, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep and Cite Sources Has an encyclopedic history section. Wikipedia is not paper. How an artcile with a history section going back to the 1880s can be called an ad for an organization (the MBTA) formed in the 1960s is beyond my understanding - the history starts 80 years before the organization. Furthermore, the MBTA doesn't provide this service, it only subsidizes it, and the article says this. The map and fares section should probably just be replaced with external links - but I wasn't quickly able to find the source of the data, so the article definitely needs source citations. GRBerry 01:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - per nom. Zaxem 01:06, 6 June 2006 (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.