Deletion of Opposition to Maryland Route 200

Comment: This article and the history section were spun down from the main MD 200 article in July 2009 per . The main article is now 56K, the history is 39K and this article is 40K. Also, a merger proposal was left open for 16 months without a merger back into the main MD 200 article.  This top has drawn considerable press attention for three decades and has been a major topic of local political debate and election campaigns.  I nominated the history article for GA, which prompt a few editors active in WikiProject US Roads to get involved in the three, and to quick fail the GA nomination.  We must apply general Wikipedia policies and realize that the topic covered here - major environmental litigation and political activism - is beyond the scope of any one WikiProject.   governs and the press coverage that the opposition to MD 200 drew over the past 30 years is sufficient to establish the notability of this subject
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:SIZE||WP:GNG)

Comment: The actual content of the two subsidiary articles is not that large;  has simply made far more material available to the online researcher on a controversial road with a complex history, and in each case most of the content of each article is in references which are pretty much duplicate two and three times over. There's no real need to split these out especially since the historical/controversial matter is really what is of most interest; the niggling detail needs to be cut back
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENTISM)