Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geylang Lorong 1 Bus Terminal

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The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:36, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Here we have another bus station in Singapore. This one serves the suburb of Geylang, and six lines depart from it. While public transport is an important factor in the geography of cities (just look at how the trolley lines and their subsequent abandonment in favour of the car shaped Philadelphia), the recent slew of Singapore bus stations does nothing for the encyclopædic treatment of the subject. The rightful place for the information would be the suburb itself or a separate article, Public transportation in Singapore. I'll get off the soapbox now. Pilatus 13:25, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, as mentioned, public transport is an important factor in the geography of cities, but we shouldn't clutter main articles with too much detail. Kappa 13:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Pilatus, who makes the point that Kappa misses quite eloquently. Nandesuka 14:34, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Pilatus. Reading all these Singapore Bus Station articles makes me feel like I've had a very boring holiday. Roll on Public transportation in Singapore, wherein all these bus terminals could quite properly be reinstated, notable or not. Peeper 15:36, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Pilatus. Is the backlash against Singaporean bus stops beginning? Last Malthusian 16:28, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not too sure if we are talking about individual bus stops here, but its a terminal we are talking about.--Huaiwei 19:46, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • If buses stop there, it is a bus stop. Call it a terminal or a station or whatever you like, but if a bus stop has several buses depart from it, even if they go to other countries, that just makes it a big bus stop. Last Malthusian 11:26, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • So we should be deleting all places where buses happen to stop, regardless of other factors? Kappa 11:26, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • Unfortunately, that is not the case here. A bus terminal or bus interchange is NEVER called a bus stop. If some voters here cannot even differentiate between the two, then I do not see how we can account for their votes? I am sorry, but do I need to use pictures to show the blatantly obvious difference between them here?--Huaiwei 16:42, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
        • Obviously, you hav little experience of bus stops in other countries. I could find hundreds of pure bus stops in Stockholm that are serviced by 6 or more bus routes (especially if you include night routes). Some of them are in terminals, some of them are not; all of them are however non-encyclopedic buscruft. / Peter ^Isotalo 14:44, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep bus terminals. --SPUI (talk) 16:45, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete — Next it will be individual pea patches. :) — RJH 16:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hey, that's not a bad idea! Last Malthusian 11:26, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Plenty of material [1] to start some. This did give me the idea to turn P-Patch into something other than a red link. Seattle hippies get pretty militant about their urban gardens. SchmuckyTheCat 19:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I do not think bus stations are notable enough to warrant individual articles. Also per nom. Joelito 17:23, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge the lot into one article (I'd even live with Bus stations in Singapore) - delete the template please --Doc (?) 17:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Lo and behold it's already there Bus transport in Singapore!--Doc (?) 17:26, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep good info, notable, breaking no rules --Quasipalm 17:27, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Subjects such as this can be covered in more than one level of article. CalJW 18:43, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I cannot forsee the day in which we have a single article talking about 20 bus interchanges, 21 terminals, and listing over 200 bus routes. And why this prejudice against bus terminals when no one seems to make noises over the hundreds of articles on individual metro stations?--Huaiwei 19:44, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. WP:POINT - Mailer Diablo 20:01, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep all roadcruft Roodog2k (talk) 20:15, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, verifiable. If you want to merge it, be bold and do it, don't nominate it for VfD. JYolkowski // talk 21:59, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep --Vsion 23:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a guide to bus routes, it is an encyclopedia. Gamaliel 23:15, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Not notable --Camw 06:59, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep bus terminals, schools, and battleships. —RaD Man (talk) 07:26, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, bus terminals are not inherently notable. My pasting fingers are tiring rapidly. Lord Bob 01:16, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or transwiki to wikitravel if there is a category for this. Vegaswikian 05:02, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge as per Doc above.Phase1 12:27, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As per nominator. / Peter ^Isotalo 22:01, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete bus spotters' obsession --redstucco 08:49, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Bus Terminal. notable info, breaking no rules. Why all the prejudice against bus terminals and interchanges in Singapore? Advanced 13:26, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • My prejudice is against articles on bus terminals anywhere. Bus terminals in Singapore happen to be the ones on AfD right now. I'm not anti-Singaporean, I'm anti-bus terminalsian. Lord Bob 17:45, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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