Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M-144 (1937–1939 Michigan highway)
I'm happy with the idea of articles citing maps, but an article's notability should not be based solely on map entries per . This article is entirely sourced to map entries. I'm also not entirely sure that it even gets past the fundamental requirement in Wikipedia:Verifiability#Notability that article subjects must have at least one reliable independent source. Essentially all the sources cited are created or published by the Michigan State Highway Department, which maintained the highway, and arguably aren't independent. The author also seems to have steered uncomfortably close to |original research in an effort to squeeze some actual prose out of the maps cited, e.g. "The highway was decommissioned in 1939" is sourced to two 1939 maps, and I assume the road isn't listed in them, but this doesn't actually support the statement in the article without inference from the editor. If we have to stoop that low just to write a few sentences then it isn't possible to write an acceptable standalone article
— User:Hut, 19:36, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NGEO||WP:OR (Wikipedia:Notability)