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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:04, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Road construction in Houston, Texas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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WP:NOTNEWS - in six months half of this article will likely need to be changed, making it a bad topic for an article. Rschen7754 03:29, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - This is a very unnecessary article, the history of the road construction can be described in the individual road articles. Dough4872 03:33, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I had tagged this as a PROD. I was willing to give the de-PRODder some time to work on the article, but I do agree with this AfD. This article is very much WP:RECENTISM and fails WP:NOTNEWS. As Dough said, the construction on each road can be covered in the history section of those roads. Otherwise, this is content that should be summarized and placed in an article equivalent to Transportation in metropolitan Detroit. Imzadi 1979 → 03:52, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, per nom & above comments. A general history of road construction in the Houston area could be covered in the Transportation section of the city article, if absolutely needed. -- LJ ↗ 07:46, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as Wikipedia is not the news. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 11:22, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:04, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:04, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Without the context of the parent article on a roadway, an article on construction of said roadway seems to be an issue of WP:NOTNEWS. Any sourced content could/should be at Transportation in Houston or the roadway's respective article, but I don't see anything substantive to merge that doesn't already exist elsewhere. --Kinu ^t/_c 19:29, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete not news, although I have to admit that after years of living in Houston, the construction there is never ending... Ealdgyth - Talk 15:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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