Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baltimore Transit Company

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 was redirect as proposed. Sandstein (talk) 19:43, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Baltimore Transit Company

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Article is about non-existent service. It should be deleted or merged to Maryland Transit Administration or History of MTA Maryland. This page is about a defunct transit agency that has not been in operation for nearly 40 years, but is written like it is one that is presently existing, and is inaccurate. Of particular concern is the external link on this page, which is to a page that gives the impression the agency is operating today, and is the basis for the inaccurate information in this article. It appears to all be a Hoax. Sebwite (talk) 00:51, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm familiar wirth the website you're talking about, and while it is no hoax (it seems to be a rather odd tribute site to the old BTCo) I do think that the article ought to be moved as you propose.Staszu13 (talk) 15:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

• Redirect to Maryland Transit Administration, the successor of the real Baltimore Transit Co. The supposed BTCo website appears to be a set of joke subpages on a transit history fansite [1]. Even if it is for real, historic BTC is notable, this new one fails WP:V and WP:CORP. Nothing to merge. • Gene93k (talk) 02:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect per Gene93k. Wildthing61476 (talk) 14:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 15:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect per Gene93k. There's actually a reasonable article at History of MTA Maryland that explains things better than this article. It's possible to write a good article about a defunct transit company, as in Twin City Rapid Transit, but Baltimore Transit Company doesn't meet this standard. --Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 16:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect The dubious weblink tends to steer the article toward the dark side. There may be a story to be told, but for now this doesn't deserve its own page. BusterD (talk) 17:39, 3 February 2008 (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.