Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of articulated bus systems

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The result was delete. Courcelles 01:54, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of articulated bus systems

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This list won't ever be finished because it encompasses a broad subject that lacks notability. The article currently lists 10 systems in South America, with no content for systems in Europe, North America, Asia, or Africa. The article had been created in June 2007, but the original creator stopped editing an hour after its creation, and only four more systems have been added since then. Apollo1758 (talk) 03:00, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Per nomination, the article is not useful in its current form. Considering the potential of such a list, note that articulated buses are very common, and they operate just like any other bus. Fleet updates can easily add or remove buses and so a list like this difficult to keep updated (this is in contrast to trolleybus systems where changes demand a major change to the infrastructure in the form of overhead lines). Having articulated buses in the fleet is hardly a distinguishing characteristic of a bus system. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:53, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Incidentally, the entries on the list are mainly bus rapid transit systems, systems where buses run on separate lanes instead of on the regular roads and streets. However, we already have a perfectly good List of bus rapid transit systems, and I cannot see this title as a plausible redirect. Sjakkalle (Check!) 15:39, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:22, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:22, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Indiscriminate (and woefully incomplete) list which doesn't add anything to the lists we already have, namely List of bus rapid transit systems and List of bus operating companies. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 00:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The nomination is false as the topic is notable. For example, see Uses of higher capacity buses in transit service. Sources such as this will enable the article to be expanded quite easily and such improvement is mandated by our editing policy which advises against deletion. Colonel Warden (talk) 01:11, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Interesting source, although the main issue seems to be that such a list would be extremely long and cumbersome, especially if it lists systems from the whole world. If such a list were to exist, it would need to exist as separate articles, and perhaps a country-specific list could exist for countries such as France. By a lack of notability, I mean that there aren't reliable third-party sources for bus systems in South America, Asia, Africa, and other regions. --Apollo1758 (talk) 23:26, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The trouble is that this potentially useful list is poorly defined. What constitutes a system? Does one route run by Wilts & Dorset count? If so, then it should be titled List of examples of uses of articulated buses, and would be WP:INDISCRIMINATE. If it's only for complete systems, then it's redundant to List of bus rapid transit systems. Either way it fails WP:SAL. Alzarian16 (talk) 08:58, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete What constitutes an articulated bus system? If it's just any system with articulated buses, that's too broad. If it's for systems with exclusively articulated buses, that has to be made clear. In the current state of the article, delete.— Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 20:11, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, without a concrete definition of "system," this is an indiscriminate list, and one that will likely never be complete. --Kinu ^t/_c 20:08, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Kinu. Joaquin008 ^(talk) 10:07, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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