Talk:Interstate 81 controversy in Syracuse, New York

This is an article started by a new user. Please note that it is still in its beginning stages, and should be given the opportunity to develop. Request for speedy deletion should be removed because this is article meets notability standards due to its significance in the Onondaga community. However the article does need to be categorized and linked to relevant articles. On another note, the claim that this article was written for promotional purposes is completely unjustified. I would suggest the creator of this article come to its defense as well AMDomG (talk) 04:08, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Any insight on the changes Ive made to date? What does everyone think about categorization of this article? Pcwarden1990 (talk) 08:36, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Merge to Interstate 81 in New York

Generally WP:USRD topics do not have articles at the city level, and sourced content would be better presented somewhere in Interstate 81 in New York to help expand that article. The current title also seems somewhat POV. --Kinu ^t/_c 21:14, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

• Support—for the reasons given by the nominator. To paraphrase the the ninth Governor of Alaska, "merge, baby, merge!" Imzadi 1979 → 21:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support - The content in this article is a specific example of a general criticism of the design of the Interstate Highway system, that with the (mostly) elevated freeways it has served to divide once united neighborhoods and communities. As this is a complaint echoed coast-to-coast, but not given much coverage in urban Interstate Highway articles, I support the addition of this content. However, I'm not sure that creating a new article is the best place for it, when this could be used to expand an existing article. Most Interstate highway history articles focus on boring technical details and dates. This could be used to focus more on the human aspect. With that said, this content could be used to expand the I-81 in NY article, or the article on Freeway revolts which currently is a list of revolts, without much information on why people were opposed to the freeway construction. Dave (talk) 21:40, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support - There is no reason this needs its own article when it can easily be covered in the Interstate 81 in New York article. This is similar to how Opposition to Maryland Route 200 was merged into Maryland Route 200. Dough4872 00:00, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
• My guess is that this was made after I deleted a similar but unreliably-sourced and POV-ridden section about this from I-81's article a few weeks ago. It doesn't seem like the quality of the sourcing has improved, nor has the prose been redone to conform to a NPOV. Merging is what would normally be done, but would merging this garbage into I-81 in NY really improve the latter article? – TMF 13:50, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support – I agree with the sentiment above. I also think this is an important aspect of I-81 NY that is going to need to be properly addressed before I-81 NY becomes recognized content. To address TMF, I do not have a problem with temporarily "dirtying up" I-81 NY until the content of this article can be properly revised. I prefer the info be all in one place, even if it is crap, rather than this article continuing to exist.  VC  15:36, 2 April 2011 (UTC)