Wikipedia:Featured and good topic removal candidates/State highways in Warren County, New York/archive1

State touring routes in Warren County, New York[edit]

There has been an impetus to stop doing topics around highways within a county as discussed here, I think it is time to go through with this one. Of the roughly 250 miles of highways currently in use, the topic as stands does not cover about 80 of them, by not including the two of some of the longest ones: I-87 and US-9. This is not the biggest issue though! The bigger problem is that the members of this topic aren't truly within the scope of the topic or that of the main article. For example, of the current membership looks like:

# / length within the county / length of the actual highway / rough %
NY 8 / 46.79 miles / 208.17 mi / 22
NY 9L / 18.58 miles / 18.58 mi / 13
NY 9N / 48.58 miles / 143.49 mi / 34
NY 28 / 21.23 miles / 281.69 mi / 7.5
NY 28N / 4.54 miles / 50.95 mi / 9
NY 32 / 2.88 miles / 176.73 mi / 1.6
NY 149 / 5.90 miles / 33.50 mi / 17.6
NY 254 / 5.34 miles / 6.01 mi / ~ all
NY 418 / 3.50 miles / 3.50 mi / all
NY 917A / 5.88 miles / 5.88 mi / all
total / 163 miles / 930 mi / 17.5%

This does does take into account the roads not in use anymore also, two very short ones that are nevertheless within the county (those ones though I bet ought to be merged within the parent road).

As can be seen, asides from the shortest ones, essentially none of the other highways are really part of the county. Because the topic includes parts that are not within the scope of the topic, while selectively leaving out those that although are highways, are not state ones in specific, this topic is incredibly selective and poorly defined. I think it is the time to clear out this topic and leave space for the topics that are based on the parent highways only like these: 1, 2, and 3. Is this topic worth being featured, as in is it among wikipedia's best work considering its forced definition? Nergaal (talk) 19:02, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Neither an interstate or a U.S. Highway are state routes, so there is no gap, and the state highways by county is a valid grouping (IMO, the Marquette County, MI verdict was a mistake). Courcelles 13:17, 18 September 2010 (UTC) (For the record, this is a good topic, not a featured one. 13:30, 18 September 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Any further comments? (I have no opinion on this one) Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:09, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Closed as no consensus to delist. Only two opinions in over a month, and it seems that the M-28 FTC and this one are different beasts, so can't use precedent here. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 02:35, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]