Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Herschel Lovett Bridge

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The result was merge to Oconee River#Crossings. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:31, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Herschel Lovett Bridge

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Non-notable generic highway bridge. Of the two sources in the article, one is a primary source bridge inventory form, and the other mentions this bridge in two sentences. This mentions the bridge in one sentence. I'm finding a few blogs and a bunch of mirrors besides those. It exists, but how does it pass WP:GNG or WP:GEOLAND? Hog Farm _Bacon 21:11, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Small generic bridge, no evidence of notability Reywas92^Talk 23:23, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment For those wondering why a nondescript bridge like this even has a name, there was a fad in the Georgia Legislature a few years ago where it they made it super easy to nominate a local person's name to be put on a piece of highway infrastructure. As a result nearly every bridge, highway ramp, interchange and roundabout in Georgia has a local person's name on it. It's a bit comical, really, almost worthy of an article itself as an annoying political phenomenon. --Krelnik (talk) 12:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per WP:GEOFEAT Nondescript bridges are not usually the subject of dedications. This one was dedicated in 1953. The bridge is featured prominently in a book about the county. 1 Lightburst (talk) 15:18, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Not sure that two sentences in a local history book count as significant coverage. If one newspaper article and a couple sentences in a local history book count as significant coverage, well, I can think of dozens of bridges in my home county that could get articles .... and 2/3's of them are all on gravel roads. Hog Farm _Bacon 15:23, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: It certainly has its photographs on Google images, but has no inherent notability. -- Whiteguru (talk) 09:42, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
delete It's a quite typical highway bridge with no real claim to notability made. Mangoe (talk) 14:24, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I added a postcard image of Oconee River Bridge, which per User:Lightburst's link's 1952 photo is the bridge with a central truss section adjacent to the Herschel Lovett Bridge (under construction). As can be seen in Google satellite view, the previous bridge with central truss section was since removed. --Doncram (talk) 00:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, probably to Oconee River#Crossings, or "Keep" outright. It's not clear that this is terribly non-descript, and it is documented at least enough to be a list item. The topic could be expanded to cover, naturally, more about previous bridge(s) there even without renaming. Note none of the above !voters considered this option; hopefully they can update their !votes now considering this. I added a section for crossings to the Oconee River article. It is perfectly reasonable to have such a section. Note, it would probably be reasonable to have a list of bridges, highway ramps, interchanges, etc. which have been named by the Georgia Legislature; if that exists or is created now then that would be an alternative merger target. Better to merge/redirect than delete. --Doncram (talk) 00:29, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Doncram. I checked newspapers.com and found two sentences in one 1953 article about the dedication. I don't see enough to keep as a stand-alone article. There is a lot more about the "Oconee River Bridge" going back to the Civil War, some of which Doncram has added to Oconee River#Crossings. MB 02:44, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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