Talk:Route 286 (Massachusetts–New Hampshire)

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Split proposal[edit]

Support as nominator. Creating an article such as this one implies that the two roads share more than just a common route number. This does not appear to be the case. A case where an article like this one would be acceptable is in the case of Massachusetts/Rhode Island Route 114A, which straddles the border between the two states. Route 286, however, does not straddle the MA/NH border, nor does the road change designations as frequently as Route 114A does (in fact, Route 286 only changes designations once - at the state line). --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 15:37, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Split as per above. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 18:18, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Split as per above. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:26, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've reverted the split. While I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea of two separate articles, there's no reason to do the split now, as there's barely enough information to fill one article at the moment. Also, the way the split was done, the history section was identical in each of the two articles. -- Kéiryn (talk) 16:55, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]