I'm not sure if WP:NPA applies to the mailing list, but calling people
assholes is uncalled for anyway. If you want to discuss the deletion
that's fine, but please don't resort to name calling.
--Mgm
On 9/30/05, SPUI <drspui(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Phil Boswell wrote:
One suspects they are at a loss as to why
Wikipedia needs an article on a
traffic circle which isn't even there any more, having been replaced by a
set of traffic lights. Unfortunately none of the articles (except that for
Flemington, which looks interestingly like "Hangar Lane" here in England)
manages to establish just WTF is so interesting about these particular
traffic circles.
They are local landmarks. People call them by those names even when they
no longer exist. Other things are named after them.
To paraphrase something I read in a book
somewhere (Miles Vorkosigan IIRC)
you don't come to Wikipedia to learn about stuff you already know, you come
to learn stuff you **don't** already know.
So you live in Freehold and want to know why an intersection is called
Freehold Circle. Too bad, the assholes deleted the article.
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