Talk:Roads in Saskatchewan

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2007-08-31. The result of the discussion was Keep.

[edit] Deletion

If User:NE2 believes that the entire article should be deleted just because the list contains red links, the red links could be removed, and everything else could be left as is. The list could be modified to be similar to the tables in the List of Alberta provincial highways. What is wrong with having a list of Saskatchewan rural roads? Ultraflame 01:48, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Are any of these roads major roads? They all look like typical dime-a-dozen two-lane roads. --NE2 02:00, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Some of them are major roads within their respective rural municipalities. And we do not have to create articles for all of them. Ultraflame 02:05, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Then it might make sense to write about them in the articles about the municipalities. Can you give an example of one that you call major? --NE2 02:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Grasswood Road, providing access to the communities Riverside Estates and Grasswood from Highways 219 and 11. Corman Park No. 344. Ultraflame 02:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

What can you say about it? Grasswood Road connects Highways 11 and 219 to Riverside Estates and Grasswood in Corman Park No. 344? You might be able to get a whole paragraph, which would fit perfectly in the Corman Park No. 344 article. --NE2 02:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

The roads listed are exactly like highways, but they lack a highway designation. A paragraph about the road would fit fine within the list of roads. Why do we not delete all of the provincial highway lists, and just mention the highways within their respective province pages? Why do we have lists of provincial highways? Ultraflame 02:40, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

There are currently lists being prodded for deletion because they only mention in the listing articles created and in a category, so the deletion says the list has to leave, as the info is already covered in the category. In this case, the list is original and helps to create articles for the category. SriMesh | talk 03:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

The other rationale for keeping this article, is that many of these roads define a large part of Saskatchewan's history. As the roads which are named, for example...Haultain Road, Strehlow Road, Indi Road all mark either communities which centered around a one room school house, or town which no longer exists. These all had a rich and vibrant history in the Sifton Last Best West immigration era. Towns, schools, elevators, needed to be about miles apart in the horse and buggy days, and the industrial revolution caused a change in Saskatchewan scenery, as mechanisation meant larger centres further apart. These roads thus named, help us to find our Saskatchewan past and roots. Cemeteries can be located for genealogists, one room school houses, and ghost towns for historians come alive with our provincial roads, for one example. SriMesh | talk 03:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Have begun a preliminary article for the aforementioned Grasswood Road, Saskatchewan, however, I have not finished it yet as it is late here, will continue anew again shortly, to show how much this road is used, and warrants more than a paragraph. SriMesh | talk 04:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by SriMesh (talk • contribs) 04:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)