Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IRT Eastern Parkway Line and New Lots Line

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The result was dealt with. This was the result of two attribution-free copies-and-pastes by Marc Shepherd (talk · contribs), which left an orphaned history here that was turned into a disambiguation between the two copies. I've done a fairly complex history merger to clean up the resultant mess. If you want to understand the details, see my deletion, rename, edit, and undeletion logs for today. The full history of the original article is now in one place at IRT Eastern Parkway Line, back where it began in 2004, and IRT New Lots Line has the best history that I could fix up to indicate that it began as a copy and paste, although it now erroneously appears that someone other than Marc Shepherd did the copy and paste. Uncle G (talk) 16:26, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

IRT Eastern Parkway Line and New Lots Line

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An inappropriate disambiguation page listing two different New York City Subway Lines that do not have the same name and were not built at the same time. While they do connect with each other, every other subway line has at least one connection to another line and the New Lots Line is an elevated two-track line while the Eastern Parkway Line is an underground four-track line that also connects to the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line. The Legendary Ranger (talk) 13:32, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I'm trying to understand why this even exists. The edit history is confusing, but there seems to have been a squabble about what line the article actually should describe, and some confusion between the two lines. It started being about the New Lots Line, moved to IRT Eastern Parkway Line, and then to the current title, before someone realised it was stupid and changed it to a disambiguation page. Delete as contrary to policy on article naming and disambiguation pages. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:07, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 14:20, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 14:20, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - it looks like all the useful content was merged into Eastern Parkway Line and New Lots Line circa 2007. The article's scope (and name) changed a few times as editors clarified their understanding of the topic. Haus^Talk 15:30, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.