Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Service A Exeter

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. W.marsh 12:11, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Service A Exeter

I found this and about 10 others with the prod reason as: wikipedia is not a directory, merge info with Stagecoach Devon. They all had {{hangon}} tags on them, which means that the prod should have been removed. As this is a contested prod I just went ahead and bumped all 10 of them to AFD. I am neutral. —— Eagle101^{Need help?} 12:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The other articles are:

—— Eagle101^{Need help?} 12:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion should also probably include:

I know that bus lines vs. bus timetables and related issues have been discussed before. I am not familiar with previous debates, so I am also neutral on this one. Serpent's Choice 13:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Bus route information does not appear in any other encyclopedia, I see no reason why these should be included, unless some of these routes have attracted attention at least on a national level. And I'm not being influenced at all by the fact that the picture of the A bus is taken in one of the most ugly locations in Exeter, a city I'm quite fond of, having lived there for 4 years. JulesH 16:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment an editor has posted his opinion on the deletion at Talk:Service A Exeter. I've copied it below for reference. JulesH 16:38, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm contesting the deletion of the Stagecoach Devon related articles, including his one because: ok its not a directory, its not meant to seem that way. When you go on google and type in buses, exwick, exeter, you get in the first few results a wiki article on it. So people know what bus goes where in Exeter. The same as London, they have all the London route on their own page, so if you're proposing this for deletion,why not London??? This is just utterly ridiculous, and im sensing the proposer may have omething against Exeter. !! Thenthornthing 10:25, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Changing my !vote to Summarise and merge to Exeter or, failing consensus for that emerging, delete per the reasoning of User:DGG at Wikipedia talk:Notability#Projects relying on primary sources. JulesH 16:48, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - non-notable bus services CLW 18:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - bus routes come and go, an individual route has no notability outside those people who catch that bus, i.e. next to none. Give it twelve months, and each route will be rerouted and/or renumbered and nobody will care about the previous setup. - fchd 18:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete buscruft. Guy (Help!) 20:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I am the original prod proposer. My reasoning is given above, thanks Eagle 101. Before I nominated them, I sent a test AFD which can be found here Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Early_Morning_Special_Service_Exeter. Regarding the authors "sense" that I have something against Exeter: please assume good faith; please also get your senses tested - I have nothing against Exeter, and may well propose deletion of London bus routes if they are as unencyclopedic as these ones are. Any sourced information on these pages can of course be merged onto Stagecoach Devon. 99of9 23:30, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the right place to find this sort of stuff is on a bus company's or Passenger Transport Authority's website. This sort of information is liable to go out of date; the operators have an incentive to keep it up to date. Our editors may well not do so. If there are similar articles for other towns they should be deleted too. Peterkingiron 00:38, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - non-notable, and too volatile - as these seem to only have one person contributing content (as opposed to content cleaning) they will rapidly go out of date if that person stoped editing. Internet users who want this info shouldn't be looking here, bt on one of the many UK travel web sites where alternatives will also be listed. --C Hawke 06:14, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It is a better idea to merge all articles into a list called "List of bus routes operated by Stagecoach Devon", or something like that, since it is easier to update.--Kylohk 16:48, 28 May 2007 (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.