Talk:Interstate 76

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Can anyone try splitting this article into Interstate 76W (the article for the Western Interstate 76) and Interstate 76 survives as the article for the Eastern Interstate 76?? Any objections?? 66.245.16.193 15:51, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• Sounds like a great idea. Hey, why don't you get an account if you're proposing changes, so it's easier to talk to you? Are you the same person who keeps reverting my changes to Interstate 77? --Improv 17:07, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • No. My user IP keeps changing among various IPs whose first number is 66 and whose second is either 32 or 245. 66.245.22.143 17:27, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I checked the "What links here" selection for Interstate 76 and corrected the links for the western highway. Anything I missed?? 66.245.22.143 17:46, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Uh oh! Somebody merged them back in! Any comments about renaming the Interstate 76W article to a better title rather than merging it?? 66.245.124.202 18:51, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I moved I-76W back here because if you split the two, you'd have to split I-84, I-86, and I-88 as well, as they are in the same boat as I-76. Besides, the highway is I-76, no letter suffix. Gpietsch 19:13, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Well, in Wikipedia, do we put things together...

1. . When they are related and can share an article, or
2. . When they share a name??

See Georgia (country) and Georgia (U.S. state). These 2 articles are both about something called Georgia, but they are split very easily. In contrast, look at Peach and Nectarine. The peach and the nectarine don't share a name, but they go together on a single article because they are so closely related. 66.245.124.202 19:16, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• In this case, they are related and they share a name. Gpietsch 19:27, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Are they related for any real reason, or just because they share a name?? 66.245.124.202 19:29, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• They are related, as they are both interstate highways. Gpietsch 19:32, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• • Using this same logic, I assume it is okay for all interstate highways to be in a single article. Are they more closely related to each other than most interstates in any way independent of sharing a name?? 66.245.124.202 19:35, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• • If I put all interstates into one article, it would be a long article. As I wrote before, I-76 is not unique in the fact that it has two different sections in two different areas of the country. Hey, the government says they're the same highway (check the list of non-contiguous interstates for more info), and who am I to argue with them? Gpietsch 19:46, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• • • Can you show me the URL?? 66.245.124.202 19:47, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
      • Dude, please get an account! Anyhow, from this site, it's suggested that they are separate highways, not a single highway with two parts. --Improv 20:08, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
      • That site is one man's reporting about changing I-80S to I-76 in Pennsylvania. It says nothing about the Western I-76. Anyway, the site says that PA had a choice of either I-76 or I-72, as I-78 and I-74 were already in use. So, they picked I-76. Gpietsch 20:20, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table1.htm Gpietsch 20:02, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Commemorative number?

Is there a source for the western I-76 being named after Colorado's founding in 1876? I removed both commemorative numbers claims, and expanded on the PA one in its section. By the way, I'd support a split into Interstate 76 (west) and Interstate 76 (east), along with this becoming a disambig. --SPUI (talk) 18:25, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)