Talk:Delaware Route 286

Delaware Route 286 has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 2, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
January 25, 2014	Good article reassessment	Kept

Current status: Good article

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The Merger

Why is having this merged article better than having separate articles for MD 286 and DE 286? V C 13:18, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DE 286 is 1.73 miles long and MD 286 is 2.09 miles long. The routes combined are only 3.82 miles long, still relatively short. Also the histories are related, as DE 286 was essentially signed as a continuation of MD 286. Dough 48 72 01:12, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Neither route is less than a mile long, which is my length criterion for merging routes. The only relation in their histories is that DelDOT decided to give the Delaware route the same number in the 1990s. MD 286 has been around since the 1930s and did not connect to the state line until the 1960s. This seems to be merging two route articles for the sake of merging two route articles. V C 14:27, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, it has been standard to merge many short roads with like numbers across state lines together. We have State Route 78 (Arizona–New Mexico), where AZ 78 is 19.47 mi and NM 78 is 15.213 mi. This example is much longer than the combined MD 286/DE 286. Dough 48 72 18:01, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A mile is just an arbitrary distance. The way I see it: if there were no state line, would the history have likely been similar? In this case, probably, with the obvious exception that 286 would have been extended all the way to 15 in 1960-1961. --NE2 17:49, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Delaware Route 286/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MathewTownsend (talk · contribs) 22:41, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

will review. MathewTownsend (talk) 22:41, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Everything looks very good. All checks out.

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Congratulations! MathewTownsend (talk) 17:53, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]