User talk:MCnyc
A tag has been placed on Trip Planner, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.
If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Trip Planner and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Spiesr (talk) 18:48, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
- Every city with a decent transit system has one of these nowadays (Milwaukee certainly does). There was nothing in the article to indicate that the NYC version was noteworthy; I will forebear from suggesting that the provincial "NYC is the center of the Universe" attitude mirrored in the famous New Yorker cover might be at work. I concede that the deletion should have been tagged "non-notable website" [A7(web)] rather than "advertising" [G11]; that was sloppiness on the nominator's part which I should have caught. If you feel you can make a case for notability, rework the article with that in mind in a sandbox, and I'll be glad to have a look. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- No bother at all. Since every transit system has one of these, there would seem no need to create an article about any particular one unless it is notable in some way. Otherwise, it just becomes a paragraph or two in the article about the transit system itself. (By the way: I believe there is a trains-and-transit wiki, which would probably be the appropriate venue for a more detailed article on the specific aspects of this.) --Orange Mike | Talk 14:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)