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The bridge was temporarily closed ahead of a major incident, and reopened sooner than expected. Neither of these factors seem to convey notability. Explicitly not in favor of a redirect to
Interstate_195_(Rhode_Island–Massachusetts)#Washington_Bridge_closure as I don't think it even merits long term mention there, but am fine with it if consensus emerges. StarMississippi 22:49, 17 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete, no redirect - This just doesn't seem
notable. A bridge being closed due to maintenance issues is pretty
routine and
run of the mill. Unless something unexpected happens, like the bridge outright collapsing, I can't see this passing either
WP:NEVENT or
WP:GNG.
Sideswipe9th (
talk) 22:56, 17 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). Closure of a major bridge on an interstate highway tends to make the national news. (Note that the closure is ongoing - traffic has been diverted to the parallel span, but it looks like a few months til the north span opens.) While I don't see it as having ensuring enough notability for an independent article, a redirect is useful for categorization in
Category:2023 in Rhode Island and so on.
Pi.1415926535 (
talk) 00:28, 18 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep - This major road closure was caused by a junior engineer reporting rod failures, and was extremely sudden. The closure caused five hour traffic delays in
Providence County, which have caused press conferences to happen every single day since the incident. Assuming that the page cannot be kept, it should be merged with
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). --
Jax 0677 (
talk) 15:53, 18 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). Disclaimer: I was asked by
Sideswipe9th about this article's notability a few days prior to this AfD, and found myself agreeing that it wasn't worth its own article. The
Hernando de Soto Bridge has no separate failure article despite being probably more notable of a closure, so I don't see why this one should have an article. LilianaUwU(
talk /
contributions) 06:58, 19 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Merge, no redirect. Traffic jams are not notable. Laughable that editors are voting to keep articles on bridge maintenance and traffic jams in the United States when we're deleting articles about traffic accidents in other countries that killed two or three dozen people. Clear case of
WP:SYSTEMIC. What's the point of a redirect? Who's going to search on this title? --
Necrothesp (
talk) 13:21, 19 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Reply - Per
WP:CHEAP, why should the page history not be kept for a legitimate search term? --
Jax 0677 (
talk) 16:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island) per others. Fails
WP:NEVENT and mentioned at the target. Seems obvious. And if we merge, then of course we redirect because we preserve attribution and redirects are cheap. If nobody searches for it, it won't get used (who cares). — Rhododendritestalk \\ 16:31, 20 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). The section in the article is about as long and well referenced. Should be redirected and someone who feels that something is still missing can look in the history.
gidonb (
talk) 02:07, 21 December 2023 (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
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
The bridge was temporarily closed ahead of a major incident, and reopened sooner than expected. Neither of these factors seem to convey notability. Explicitly not in favor of a redirect to
Interstate_195_(Rhode_Island–Massachusetts)#Washington_Bridge_closure as I don't think it even merits long term mention there, but am fine with it if consensus emerges. StarMississippi 22:49, 17 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Delete, no redirect - This just doesn't seem
notable. A bridge being closed due to maintenance issues is pretty
routine and
run of the mill. Unless something unexpected happens, like the bridge outright collapsing, I can't see this passing either
WP:NEVENT or
WP:GNG.
Sideswipe9th (
talk) 22:56, 17 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). Closure of a major bridge on an interstate highway tends to make the national news. (Note that the closure is ongoing - traffic has been diverted to the parallel span, but it looks like a few months til the north span opens.) While I don't see it as having ensuring enough notability for an independent article, a redirect is useful for categorization in
Category:2023 in Rhode Island and so on.
Pi.1415926535 (
talk) 00:28, 18 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Keep - This major road closure was caused by a junior engineer reporting rod failures, and was extremely sudden. The closure caused five hour traffic delays in
Providence County, which have caused press conferences to happen every single day since the incident. Assuming that the page cannot be kept, it should be merged with
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). --
Jax 0677 (
talk) 15:53, 18 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). Disclaimer: I was asked by
Sideswipe9th about this article's notability a few days prior to this AfD, and found myself agreeing that it wasn't worth its own article. The
Hernando de Soto Bridge has no separate failure article despite being probably more notable of a closure, so I don't see why this one should have an article. LilianaUwU(
talk /
contributions) 06:58, 19 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Merge, no redirect. Traffic jams are not notable. Laughable that editors are voting to keep articles on bridge maintenance and traffic jams in the United States when we're deleting articles about traffic accidents in other countries that killed two or three dozen people. Clear case of
WP:SYSTEMIC. What's the point of a redirect? Who's going to search on this title? --
Necrothesp (
talk) 13:21, 19 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Reply - Per
WP:CHEAP, why should the page history not be kept for a legitimate search term? --
Jax 0677 (
talk) 16:01, 20 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island) per others. Fails
WP:NEVENT and mentioned at the target. Seems obvious. And if we merge, then of course we redirect because we preserve attribution and redirects are cheap. If nobody searches for it, it won't get used (who cares). — Rhododendritestalk \\ 16:31, 20 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Washington Bridge (Providence, Rhode Island). The section in the article is about as long and well referenced. Should be redirected and someone who feels that something is still missing can look in the history.
gidonb (
talk) 02:07, 21 December 2023 (UTC)reply
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