Talk:M2 motorway (Great Britain)

message: A229
Removed the description of the A299 as being a "motorway-standard" dual carriageway. It does not have hard shoulders and has several at-grade roundabouts, such as with the A28. However, it is still a good quality dual carriageway road.
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A2
Changed description of the A2 to be "motorway-standard", as this has four lanes of traffic in each direction plus hard shoulders, of the same quality as the M2.
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Medway Towns Bypass
The M2 in not merley a Medway Towns bypass, its more of a road to access North Kent. the M2 in conjunction with the motoway standard A2 (blackwall tunnell to m2 j1) and the thanet way (A299) Pickle 12:53, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The people of Medway wont be happy with that! lol--Screen42 23:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Whats a primary destination!?

message: "It is the only "M" motorway (as opposed to an "A-road(M)" motorway such as the A1(M)) that does not meet any other motorway at a junction" - The M27 does not meet any other motorways either, although it does meet/split off into the A27 and the A3(M) I always assumed that was an A road masquerading as a motorway... What does everyone think? (Pete)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.143.88.237 (talk) 19:26, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The M27 connects to the M3, M275 motorway and M271 motorway. FM [ talk to me | show contributions ]  17:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Only motorway with no connecting motorways?

message: Is there any particular reason why this page sits where it does? Other countries have enormously larger and more important M2 motorways, e.g., M2 motorway (Russia). I believe M2 motorway should be reserved for a disambiguation page. --Ghirla-трёп- 17:18, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well run a proper WP:move suggestion / poll thingy... It sounds eminently sensible Pickle 01:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move proposal 

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message: And I see it's been moved to (Great Britain) despite there being no consensus to do so. Especially since (Great Britain) seems to be the worst version as the rest of them are named under countries/states, not by island or geographical entity. Canterbury Tail talk 19:32, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Because of this users continued disruption on this topic, I have been forced to start another ANI thread regarding her actions. Jeni (talk) 19:37, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we at least please move this to M2 motorway (England) to be consistent with the other articles, and more accurate as it doesn't cover all of Great Britain, only in England. Canterbury Tail talk 11:39, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

text: I have reverted my own recent move to 'England' as, although my research shows other travel-related articles do sometimes use '(England)' a larger number use GB or UK. UK could not be applicable here because of NI, thus I revert myself and leave it to further discussion by all editors here whether to make any further move(s). --AlisonW (talk) 10:10, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Alison, considering how enthusiastically you laid accusations of vandalism at other editors who moved pages without prior consensus, that reversion is long overdue. As above, I happen to prefer the destination you have reverted to, but mine was a lone voice and I'm astonished that you yourself seem to be quite happy to engage in non-consenus moves whilst using your admin tools to prevent others doing the same. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs)
The scoping of this move as "Great Britain" is appropriate, because the road is numbered under the Great Britain road numbering scheme, which applies on the mainland in England, Scotland and Wales, on the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles.  "United Kingdom" would not be appropriate, because road numbering in Northern Ireland (which is part of the UK) is not carried out under this scheme, but managed separately.  81.110.104.91 (talk) 17:50, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

text: I have come late to this discussion, but I would say that the best decision has been made. "United Kingdom" would have been a terrible choice due to NI, and "England" is too narrow - would we have "A1 (England)"?  No, because it's also in Scotland.  Therefore for consistency with other articles, "Great Britain" is the best. (And if other road articles refer to "England" or "Scotland" or "Wales" then they should also be moved.) Bazonka (talk) 20:00, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The M8 and M9 motorways are currently at M8 motorway (Scotland) and M9 motorway (Scotland). In a few days when the currently running requested moves are settled, I am planning to request them to be moved - the M9 is a clear primary topic and so per the M1 shouldn't take any parenthetical disambiguation. I've not done the research regarding the M8 yet, but if that isn't a primary topic I'll be proposing the disambiguator is changed to (Great Britain). Thryduulf (talk) 22:35, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Both articles have recently been moved by the disruptive Irish editors recently, so common sense suggests moving back pending a RM discussion. Jeni (talk) 01:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I certainly wont object to that, but following my snafu with the M18 I'm not going to bethe one to do it! Thryduulf (talk) 08:16, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Even if they were not to be moved back to its primary spot, those really need to be changed to (Great Britain), there is no reason to have England, or Scotland in some of the titles as pointed out above its the Great Britain road numbering scheme. BritishWatcher (talk) 12:16, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Even though those two roads are wholly within Scotland and are under the jurisdiction of the Scottish Government? Jmorrison230582 (talk) 21:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Its still the Great Britain road numbering scheme, as BW pointed out. Jeni (talk) 21:23, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved

message: FWIW, I note that the approach being taken by DeFacto to add miles in column 1 seems way more sensible than requiring discrete columns for miles and kilometres, given that the DeFact approach involves wrapping a convert template around an extant value, as compared with the RJL method which requires (correct me if I'm wrong) each km to be manually converted into miles, or else requires the production of some new template magic to do a convert and produce the two columns. I'd prefer we adopt what I see as a sensible approach which provides well formatted copy, than allow RJL (not for the first time) to seek to deny us new content. --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:57, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that although the  template does have the facility to output a string which would put each of the 2 values into separate table columns, it won't accomodate the awkward, non-RJL compliant, formatting deployed here of putting 2 rows into 1 cell using the "" html tag. -- de Facto (talk). 15:38, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Having miles and kilometres mixed up in a column is awful - convert does have a facility to suppress the units so, as DeFacto says, the miles values can be added, but the actual number has to be repeated - see List of tunnels in the United Kingdom for an example. Martinvl (talk) 15:43, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Kilometres, miles, and RJL

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message: Where does this come from in the table? As far as I can see on the ground there are only junctions 1 and 2 etc. Crookesmoor (talk) 09:12, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Junction 1a?