Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia State Route 846 (Loudoun County)

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 merge‎ to List of secondary state highways in Virginia. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 17:33, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Virginia State Route 846 (Loudoun County)[edit]

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Non-notable secondary road. Philroc (talk) 04:55, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Transportation and Virginia. Philroc (talk) 04:55, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Open to discussing a merge, however Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia State Route 665 did not come up with any consensus and neither did [1]. --Rs chen 7754 05:03, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge per VC, since there is no table in this article it should be okay to merge in this scenario. --Rs chen 7754 00:13, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm in the same camp as Rschen here with regards to a merger. In a perfect world, List of secondary routes in Loudoun County, Virginia would exist and it would have already been redirected there, but it doesn't. –Fredddie ™ 05:09, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ - Road not notable enough for its own article and no suitable redirect target. However, if a list of secondary routes for Loudoun County is created then a redirect for this route can be made there. Dough4872 12:40, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge - Per VC. Until a list of secondary routes for Loudoun County is created, a merge to the main list of secondary highways will do for now. Dough4872 19:34, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~—The Sterling Boulevard part of SR 846 has a functional classification of minor arterial, which is one level below the principal arterials that are part of the National Highway System. The highway might have significant coverage independent of being the main street of the 1960s-developed Sterling Park housing development to meet the general notability guideline; I'll try to find some sources later. V C 13:21, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge into List of secondary state highways in Virginia until we figure out a solution for the Virginia state secondary highways, which I expand upon in my response to Streetlampguy301 below. I could not find significant coverage of this highway outside of it being the main street of the surrounding development. Not to say the coverage does not exist, but I am doubtful at this point. V C 18:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 12:27, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles (talk) 13:43, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Trying to create an article on every single route in Loudoun County would be extremely tedious and pointless given the sheer number of routes in this one particular county (a lot of which travel through areas with little or no population or otherwise have no significance). A select few routes might be significant enough to warrant a standalone article, but most of them don't seem notable enough. Besides, there are no List of secondary routes in X County articles for any other place in Virginia, let alone anywhere else in the United States, and it wouldn't be viable to create such articles where few of the routes are anywhere near notable in the first place. Streetlampguy301 (talk) 18:54, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- A key task in figuring out what to do with the Virginia state secondary highways is to determine both (1) what makes a highway notable enough to have a standalone article and (2) what makes a highway notable enough to be part of a list. I don't think anyone is arguing for coverage of every state secondary highway. V C 19:02, 9 May 2023 (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.