Talk:Rest area

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Yes. These articles should be merged, due to their similar content and the Motorway Service... article being very small. Changes should be made to the Rest Area article so that it contains more information on areas outside of the US. --Benbread 13:42, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy dispute

In many states it is illegal to sleep in rest areas if you are not in an 18-wheeler. the state police will tell you to vamoose. -matt

This would be worthwhile to add if you could be more specific on the information (and provide sources) than "many states".

I know that in Virginia, on the rules and regulations list posted at rest areas, it is illegal to sleep in the rest area building, but there is no mention as to the legality of sleeping elsewhere on the premises, such as in one's vehicle. I have seen many people late at night stop at rest areas to take a siesta, and have also done so myself, and no one's ever given me problems over it, nor have I seen anyone else have problems with it. SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:58, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] UK Motorways link

I took a look at the link that MarkSG inserted and reinserted, and I don't see anything wrong right offhand with including it. SchuminWeb (Talk) 14:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I see that all but one of the offsite links have now been removed. I'm not going to revert it this time, but I'd ask that other editors check the links that were removed (and, indeed, the one that remains) and make their own judgment on which are relevent and which are not. MarkSG 06:47, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi - I'm the editor who removed all but one link. As to the ones I removed I always refer to WP:EL & WP:NOT when looking at links. I also check the actual link out. Wiki is not a directory so links to service stations on all roads throughout the world look to be inappropriate. The fact that there weren't many more there seems a matter of "so far" there aren't - the presence of the heading would have merely encouraged other contributors to think that the links were wanted. In general Wiki requires encyclopedic content not links.

The one I left (to me) really seems to add something to Wiki in terms of history & information and also provides other appropriate links without the need for them to be placed on Wiki itself (additionally it has no appearance of being commercial (WP:SPAM). Hope that clarifies things for everyone --Nigel ^(Talk) 12:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rest Stop movie

The page Rest Stop redirects to this page, when perhaps it should be a disambig page because there is a movie called Rest Stop (Rest Stop (film). Thoughts? -Elizabennet 02:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

We don't need a full dab page for it, but definitely a dab line for it at the top of the article. I'll put one in there. SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)