Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/County Route 857 (Monongalia County, West Virginia)

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 04:30, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

County Route 857 (Monongalia County, West Virginia)

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Non-notable and unreferenced county highway; an infobox and termini do not notability make for county routes. I'd merge it, but there's nowhere to merge it to. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 05:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - no sources, checked Google news/books/scholar for other mentions, the only mentions from news are where it's mentioned in passing about a traffic accident and as part of an award of contracts for bridges from 2006. No mentions on scholar, and the one mention on books appears to be from a book culled from Wikipedia. I also note the content has remained unchanged since it's creation, the only changes since 2007 to the article are infobox and category tweaks. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:33, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - major transportation corridor and extension of Pennsylvania Route 857. This route is one of the few county routes in the state considered by WVDOH to be essentially equivalent to a state route. It is fully marked with stand-alone guide signage including multiplexes with WV 7 and US 119. One of a handful of county routes of major significance in the state that WVDOH has included in its listing of control cities. Brian Powell (talk) 18:48, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:56, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:56, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as a subsection of PA 857, complete with {{infobox road small}}. Imzadi 1979 → 00:20, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - This appears to be a rare exception of a county route serving as a significant transportation corridor. Failing keep, the article should be merged with its continuation, Pennsylvania Route 857. Dough 48 72 00:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Neither this article nor PA 857 assert this corridor is significant. If it were significant, it would be a state highway. –Fredddie ™ 00:47, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and Fredddie. If I recall correctly, I only created the article in order to remove content relating to it from PA 857. Since that time, though, it's become commonplace to cover short continuations of a highway in another state in the first road's article. It could be merged back to PA 857; however, I don't see a need to have more than a one-line mention about CR 857 in PA 857's article if that happens. A statement saying that CR 857 serves as a connector between the state line and Morgantown is plenty enough. – T M F 02:17, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: CR 857 is the road that is being functionally replaced by the West Virginia Route 43 freeway, part of the Mon-Fayette Expressway. Brian Powell (talk) 04:57, 9 August 2010 (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.