Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interstate Highway System chronology

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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 DELETE per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:48, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interstate Highway System chronology

Interstate Highway System chronology (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Has been PRODed twice: first in May by SPUI with the rationale "Will only duplicate information in individual articles" and more recently by NE2. The (extremely incomplete) list could be considered cruft, and I feel that SPUI's rationale is right. Since this has been PRODed twice, I believe it needs a full AFD to settle things once and for all. —Scott5114↗ 19:07, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment It's incomplete, as already stated, but it is interesting. I know that's not justification, but can this be converted into a "timeline" format, and then merged into Interstate Highway System? Yngvarr (t) (c) 19:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure. In the unlikely event that it were to be completed, it'd be quite huge. (I just noticed it gave the commissioning date of I-264 as being in the 1940s - not possible, the system wasn't created until 1956!)—Scott5114↗ 20:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Roadgeeks (like me) both eat this stuff up and go too far for encyclopedic purposes. This falls under the latter more than the former. The IHS is probably worthy of a History of the Interstate Highway System page, with an embedded timeline of major events, but I'm not sure we have any purpose in archiving the start dates of individual numbered Interstates, especially as e.g. I-90 took some 34 years to complete coast-to-coast (see Interstate 90 in Idaho). --Dhartung | Talk 22:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Individual highway construction/completion dates will be in the individual highway articles. Significan system milestones will be in the system article. Plus, I seem to recall reading somewhere that stand-alone timelines as articles are not looked upon kindly. --Polaron | Talk 00:57, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete; I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to be. No Interstate numbers were defined before 1957; a new piece of I-69 opened in 2006. The construction history is complicated enough that we can't meaningfully pull out a few dates and list them. We need to cover the details in the articles about the roads, and important dates (oldest road on the system, first completed transcontinental route, etc.) in the Interstate Highway System article. --NE2 02:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with Interstate Highway System. --Son 13:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. As Polaron said above, completion/assignment dates can be found in the individual articles. Also, if this list was completed, it would be too cumbersome and confusing (in the case of roads such as I-95, which is still not fully completed) to be useful. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 23:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as it is - as mentioned above - redundant to the article infoboxes master sonT - C 03:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletions. —User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 23:52, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. NASCAR Fan24(radio me!) 19:56, 29 September 2007 (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.