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 result was delete. Although opinion is divided as concerns delete or merge, one "merge" opinion would also support deletion and the two others don't really address the reasons for deletion. Sandstein 12:38, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

K7033/7034 Harbin-Heihe Through Train[edit]

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No evidence of notability. Articles should instead exist for the lines that the train runs on (one exists; the other doesn't and should be translated from the zhwiki article). Jc86035 (talk) 13:53, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! ^{Babymissfortune} 14:20, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! ^{Babymissfortune} 14:20, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge this and K7035/7036 Harbin-Heihe Through Train and 4031/4032 Harbin-Heihe Through Train to Harbin-Heihe Through Train. A walled-garden created by a user who was blocked for personal attacks immediately after creating these pages. [1] does list all three routes. But Wikipedia never has articles per-numbered-route, not on trains or buses or airplanes. Deleting the whole lot (per WP:TNT) as under-referenced traincruft is also an option. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:36, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  (after the relist) ​ There are apparently about 350 articles on bus routes, a third of them for bus routes in London. Jc86035 (talk) 16:35, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  I misspoke. I meant different numbered trains on the same route. All of the many buses per day on London Buses route 13 are the same number, there's only one number for the route as a whole. These are three trains on the same route with three different numbers. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:31, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, and delete the two similar articles as well. Agree that there lacks evidence of notability. Also not a through train, by the definition in that article. Just a set of 3 pairs of trains that provide service between two cities. If we were to look at all the different terminus-to-terminus services that are provided by China Railways, this would probably be in the many hundreds, few that would be notable. I see that in Chinese Wikipedia they do have some articles for a collection of train numbers that serve the same route, for example one article for all the trains serving Beijing-Shanghai high speed in addition to the one for the line itself. So perhaps a Harbin–Heihe train service if merge. Heights^{(Want to talk?)} 23:50, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge I'm reluctant to support deletion in topic areas that still need development, including coverage of countries where we are limited by the availability of English language sources - I think China is one of those topics, so some leeway should be given, but there is no need for three articles about roughly the same thing. SeraphWiki (talk) 23:02, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per SeraphWiki's comments. 2Q (talk) 08:05, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all per Heights, but instead add passing mentions added on either end of the services, rather than a new article about the service itself. Nightfury 14:04, 15 January 2018 (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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.