Talk:Single carriageway

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On 23:12, 27 August 2022 (UTC), it was proposed that this article be moved from Single carriageway to Undivided highway. The result of the discussion was Not moved.

Moved to 'undivided highway'?

Would undivided highway be a better article title with single carriageway in brackets rather than the other way round? I suggest it would be good to standardise on American English for the core road terms. Undivided highway is also the more common term on the web according to Google. Here are other road related terms (American English term first, then British and a wlink on the relevant entry):

Undivided highway/single carriageway
Divided highway/dual carriageway
Roadway/carriageway
Median/central reservation.
Tree lawn/Road verge
Sidewalk/footway etc

As you can see there is currently a lack of consistency across the articles which is confusing.

Any thoughts

- PeterEastern (talk) 17:27, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The British scheme is far more widespread across articles and should generally be retained unless it can be shown that the American term is in use internationally (and the British not). Certain articles need to be reworked and merged, as we have far too many articles to cover different types of roads (when a single article on "road" could cover everything in detail). - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 20:50, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tree lawn isn't used at all in the UK. Not only is the term unknown, but British suburbs simply aren't laid out like this. --Ef80 (talk) 13:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The USA and UK terms for verge were indeed reversed on this talk page. I have also fixed the order. The 'Tree Lawn' article has also been renamed Road verge which I have fixed and another minor issue above. PeterEastern (talk) 04:58, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested Move

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: (non-admin closure) Snow close, not moved. Imzadi 1979 → 23:10, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Single carriageway → Undivided highway – Use American terms 2600:1700:6180:6290:9DF4:436E:5E7F:66B (talk) 14:49, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:RETAIN. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:02, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per the discussion in 2011. –Fredddie ™ 16:34, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Since this is the English, not the American Wikipedia, we are going to an argument that isn’t use American terms before we even consider such a change.--67.70.24.37 (talk) 20:34, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.