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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 06:36, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of roundabouts and traffic circles in Canada[edit]

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Does not fulfill WP:LISTN and violates WP:INDISCRIMINATE. -Crossroads- (talk) 04:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -Crossroads- (talk) 04:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -Crossroads- (talk) 04:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. -Crossroads- (talk) 04:17, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom and WP:NOR. Obviously indiscriminate and roundabouts are pretty much non notable. The only one in the list that has an article, Armdale Rotary, probably should be nominated as well. Ajf773 (talk) 04:33, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Even if the list in its entirety was derived from an all-inclusive source, and there is indicated notability for the whole set (explained in WP:LISTN as per nom), it then also arguably fails WP:NOTDIR as simple listings without context information, in addition to the above concerns. ComplexRational (talk) 18:45, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, is there really less than 200 roundabouts/traffic circles in the whole of Canada? thats less than in the city i live! even if there are sources out there that discuss using them for traffic management in Canada that does not make it appropriate to provide a directory listing. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:36, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There are more than 200; it's just hard to reliably source them as you note, so this list would likely only include roundabouts that people who knew about the existence of the list could personally attest to having driven on. But also, it's only in the 21st century that Canada has started building any significant number of roundabouts at all — Canada historically stuck strictly to conventional street intersections and highway interchanges, and only started importing the roundabout concept within the past 10 or 15 years as highway design practices evolved. So there are certainly more than 200, but there still aren't as many as you would expect if you're thinking from the perspective of a country where they've been a thing for decades. Bearcat (talk) 17:01, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per everyone above - Fails NOTDIR. –Davey2010^Talk 13:44, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Ten years ago, when roundabouts were still a novelty on the Turtle Island side of the pond, this might have made some sense. In 2019, however, they're dime a dozen, so there's no value in trying to curate or maintain a comprehensive list of them at all. Bearcat (talk) 22:19, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - weird and useless article. Fails wp:indiscriminate Nixinova T C 22:47, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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