Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Buses route 4

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. - ulayiti (talk) 18:03, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] London Buses route 4

The article provides no evidence that this bus route is encyclopedic, if such a thing is possible. For what it's worth, there is some precedent that individual bus routes are not inherently encyclopedic, barring specific evidence of their notability; see, for example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M4 Bus Route. CDC (talk) 17:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Bus routes are not encyclopedic because the bus company can change them in about five minutes --Ruby 18:30, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually bus routes are surprisingly stable, possibly because they have to go through a regulatory process. I've done some research on the bus routes in Boston, Massachusetts, and many of them are largely or entirely equivalent to the streetcar lines they replaced starting in the 1920s. Given that this article only gives a list of stops, I see no pressing need to keep it. However, the history of the route from its likely streetcar beginnings would make a good article. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 18:56, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep If we deleted things because they might change we couldn't cover the contemporary world, or science or anything much at all. Calsicol 01:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete: If it had cultural significance, maybe featured prominently in a movie or something, that would be one thing. Metroline's website is the place for this sort of material. Peter Grey 02:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete -- Most cities have a great many bus routes, and few of them are worth an article. The few that would be notable would be Bus Rapid Transit routes and the like. Haikupoet 03:19, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Per Peter Grey. Treznor 03:20, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Create List of London bus routes and Merge. There are many similar articles to the one listed on this AfD - see Category:London_buses MLA 12:05, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete WP is not replacement of bus company website. Pavel Vozenilek 20:48, 20 February 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.