Category talk:Road-inaccessible communities of North America

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North America

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Category Creation

The plan here is to track all the communities satisfying the criteria, data for which has not been centralised (ie: the data exists -- therefore not original research -- but the list has not been compiled elsewhere). My expectation is that the vast majority of settlements will be in Northern Canada and Alaska.

Islands without cars (ie: Mackinac Island, MI) but easily accessible via the Highway grid are to be explicitly excluded. The test for inclusion is: "In an emergency, would it be possible to drive to the settlement from any point on the contiguous North American highway grid?" — Muckapedia (talk) 24^e nov. 2015 12h21 (−4h)

I see no problem with this category tree as it's sufficiently well-populated. However, other editors may have other criteria. As such, this could very well wind up at CFD with a consensus to listify, so keep that in mind. My specific concern has to do with the midstream change in criteria and how that affects the Alaska subcategory. A robust ferry network exists in Southeast Alaska, anchored by the Alaska Marine Highway network, which also operates in other parts of Alaska. If communities with scheduled ferry service connecting to the highway grid are to be excluded, it would help to know that, as I haven't even scratched the surface as far as that category goes. I don't live along the coast, so I'm not familiar with the ferry network. Speaking of that, I came across Draft:Ferries in Alaska within the past week. It was created in article space and moved to draft space 15 minutes later, and has been left to rot there for well over three months. That's part of the plan: it will remain buried and ignored until eventually deleted by an admin who cares zero about the notability of the topic or that there may be editors out there willing or able to turn it into a real article. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 02:16, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]