Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Motels in the United States
but remove the huge duplicate block of country-specific information which was inexplicably pasted back into the main motel article. That article is about motels globally, where the focus on one nation is  and problematic to the article. This material was |split out the better part of a year ago because an anon-IP back in 2012 had repeatedly dumped a progressively-growing quantity of US-specific |trivia into the main article from a single source: {{ISBN|9780801869181}}, The Motel In America (The Road And American Culture) by Professor John A. Jakle. I have some reservations as to whether we need all this country-specific information at all, certainly we don't need a 70Kb cut-and-paste exercise recycling {{ISBN|9780801869181}} and its book-length trivia about individual US-specific motel chains (a few of which, such as the Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts, have been dead for decades). I have no idea why text in motels in the United States was put back into motel as that is not only duplicative, but does violate  and  as it's excess detail of questionable value. It should be removed from the main article entirely - either to be left just in the country-specific article or to be deleted outright; we don't need the history of every US motel chain, dead or alive, just to explain to the reader what a "motel" is. The over-reliance on "The Motel In America" as a single source, even with slight paraphrasing, is dangerously close to . I'd be willing to allow motels in the United States as a valid stand-alone topic if it is |notable and if it isn't merely a copyvio or paraphrased rehash of the "motels in America" book, but this level of single-country detail does not belong in the main, global-level article and should therefore '''be removed from "motel"''' - either to the subtopic article (if we need the info) or to the bit bucket
— User:K7L, 20:50, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:UNDUE||WP:SPLITOUT||WP:TRIVIA||WP:UNDUE||WP:TRIVIA||WP:COPYVIO||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)