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So they've created a secondary source that now can be referenced in Wikipedia. Good for them.
Does it? It's an encyclopedia, not a map.
Ah right, because people want a single stop source for AI training without bothering about training dataset copyrights... is that it?
Maps don't give the history of roads (planning, construction, naming) or secondary information like communities served, relative lengths or controversies. There's plenty encyclopedic information that maps don't provide.
Fair point. Most of it is still going to hit a wall on the notability side though, particularly in an encyclopedia with a global scope, where they get compared to the likes of Via Appia, the Avenue of Sphinxes, and others.
Otherwise, there is still a whole Portal:Roads that isn't likely to go away.
There are hundreds of articles on census-designated places and unincorporated communities (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialville,_Ohio) that have even less information than most articles on roads. The standards here are similar and would meet the same notability guidelines.
Well, seems like you might've found some candidates for deletion? 😉
Although...
That might have some historical relevance.
Yeah i don't think another wiki is a reliable source. I think that would fall under user forums or some shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources either way, good for them lol
I think robust road information would be good for Wikipedia. I used Wikipedia as a guide on drawing Heraldry, which it has great resources for and even example images to trace off of.
"It's an encyclopaedia, not an art tutorial!"
There is still Portal:Roads, it looks reasonably robust to me.
Actually... an encyclopedia is an "everything" kind of intro tutorial. It isn't supposed too get to much in depth though, that's what sources are for.