Talk:M18 motorway (Great Britain)

message: This is probably an issue with most motorway articles (I don't frequently look at these) but it's a bit difficult to get an idea of exactly where this motorway is without a map. I mean like most British people I know roughly where Sheffield is, but Goole is pretty obscure. It would be quite easy to put together a map as a derivative of a creative commons image, but is there a standard style for all of these pages that this would breach? I'd imagine the vast majority of people who search for this simply want to know precisely where the motorway is and it's a little bit frustrating having to further click on the link to the Goole page and try to semi-approximate the location yourself.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.82.199 (talk) 18:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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message: The M18 motorway (Russia) is 35 times longer than this one. What's the reason that the page M18 motorway is reserved for an obscure rural road in Yorkshire? Systemic bias? --Ghirla-трёп- 17:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: It is beyond doubt that, in England, the primary use of the term refers to the English M18.  It is equally beyond doubt that, in Ireland, the primary use of the term is the Irish M18.  The wikipedia policy of giving precedence to the primary use of the term applies where one usage has substantial worldwide recognition (thus, for example, Boston goes to Boston, Mass rather than Boston, England (Lincolnshire). The "we thought of it first!" argument does not apply). Where such clear dominance is not established, the primary article is the disambiguation article. So what we need to demonstrate is whether either motorway has worldwide recognition  because, if we can't, we have to give way to wikipedia convention and let the disambig article take priority. --Red King (talk) 12:09, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion the table in the section about of Google Australia results excluding Wikipedia is indication that the British road has the significant worldwide recognition required for a primary topic. Thryduulf (talk) 12:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is interesting, is it not, that M18 highway takes us to the disambig article? --Red King (talk) 12:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see what relevance that has, as neither the British nor Irish roads (the only roads with a realistic claim to be the primary topic for the title "M18 motorway") are commonly called referred to as "M18 highway". Looking at the disambiguation page, it would seem to me that the only contenders for primary topic for the title "M18 highway" are the roads in Russia and the United States, and a quick look at the first three pages of google.co.uk hits for M18 highway -Wikipedia -Manchester (the latter to exclude the M18 postcode area) suggests that neither is the primary topic (this is not conclusive by any means though). None of the results were for the British or Irish roads, so that title really is of no importance to this discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 14:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

text: I agree with Jan1nad. --Red King (talk) 14:48, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move continues (convenience break)

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message: Hi everyone, I just thought I'd query about this because while I've added some detail to it myself in order to update and expand it, I'm not quite sure whether the sub section for the Great Yorkshire Way is very relevant to the M18 Motorway because the road itself isn't part of the motorway and only links the M18 with Doncaster Sheffield Airport, and so it is slightly off topic. Due to this, I definitely would suggest moving the sub section from this article to the A6182 road article as it would be more relevant there (or even create a separate article for the Great Yorkshire Way) while keeping it as a brief/single sentence mention in this article and keeping the sentence on the M18 being widened between junctions 2 and 3 northbound as that alone is relevant to the motorway. I would be very grateful if anyone can please give their opinion on this matter? Many thanks. Broman178 (talk) 20:51, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there has been no response to this query of mine after 5 months, I've moved most of the info for the Great Yorkshire Way to the A6182 road article as it is more relevant there than here, keeping only the bit of the M18 widening in this article as that is the only bit relevant to this article. If anyone disagrees with my changes, please discuss it here, thank you. Broman178 (talk) 11:31, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance of Great Yorkshire Way?