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[edit] NPOV

This seems a little NPOV "NHS also will help us meet the challenges of global economic competititon by enhancing our different modes of transportation, increasing America's productivity, and bolstering its economy." any suggestions for replacement. Mbisanz 02:17, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] National Highway System

A link should be provided to Canada's National Highway System - that was already propsoed in 1988. See http://www.tc.gc.ca/ship/nhsrrn.htm for details.

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was no consensus. —Nightstallion (?) 09:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page move proposal

National Highway System → National Highway System (U.S.) (or similar) – There exist systems of national highways in many other countries. IMHO in the interest of NPOV and removing systemic bias National Highway System should redirect to National Highway, where I have created a disambig. — Paddu 16:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
  • Oppose absent a showing of this specific name used elsewhere. Gene Nygaard 18:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
    • See the previous section in this page where the Canadian NHS is mentioned. -- Paddu 23:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
    • These are the first few matches for searching for the term among Indian and Pakistani websites respectively:
      • India — [1] → [2] (from website of the planning commission of India), [3] (from the website of Parliament of India)
      • Pakistan — [4] → [5] (from website of the National Highways Authority of Pakistan)
The number of websites in these countries is much less than the number in the U.S. due to the systemic bias in the internet and hence the number of matches for these Google searches are much less than the number of matches from U.S. websites. -- Paddu 00:11, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support, as, even though there may be an absense of a highway system named this way, by definition they are all still national highway systems, and the US is not the only one to have one of these. SeanMD80 05:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment You can't ignore capitalization in that statement. That in itself is only a good argument for a disambiguation page at National highway system rather than a redirect from there to National Highway System. A case can probably be made for this move; it hasn't been made yet. Gene Nygaard 16:11, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose. I think I agree with Gene Nygaard here. I see that India and Pakistan have national highway systems, but it isn't obvious that they have a National Highway System. — Knowledge Seeker দ 21:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak support, but in principle, he's right. —Nightstallion (?) 09:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

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Your disambiguation page should be National highway, not National Highway. Gene Nygaard 18:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

[edit] NPOV + Cleanup tags

The History and Justification section had been tagged as needed "cleanup" since March 2006. According to the history, this was by Jersyko, who cited his reason as, "needs cleanup; this section is written from the POV of the dept. of transportation (obviously copied from their website), thus we have words like "us" and "our" here." On May 6, 2006, I added an NPOV tag for much the same reason, including the reason that Mbisanz cited several months ago in the first topic on this talk page. On May 7, Novasource removed these tags without fixing the problems, claiming that rationale had not been provided.

Virtually the entire article has been copy and pasted from the FHWA website. If this is public domain and not copyright enfringement, that's fine, but that doesn't automatically make it encyclopedic material. The first person used throughout the history and justification section is wholly inappropriate for an encyclopedia. It requires a rewrite.

I would do the edit myself instead of tagging it, but I am not knowledgeable enough to do the rewrite.

Please do not remove these tags until the problem has actually been fixed. -- Northenglish 23:20, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

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