https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... bus_routes
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=500&offset=0&ns4=1&search=intitle%3A"Articles+for+deletion%2FList+of+bus+routes+in"
The basic idea of Wikipedia is you have policies and guidelines, and they supposedly reflect what is common practice or settled consensus. The flaw of Wikipedia of course is that when there is genuine disagreement, they have no real way of forcing people to settle the dispute at the high level, say through a Request for Comment.
As has happened here, it instead becomes a cause for a tiny handful of zealots, who turn it into a series of time wasting and repetitive battles at AfD, whose outcome depends more on who happens to be around at the time, than anything resembling strong argument.
In this case, the primary (or rather, most persistent) actors appear to be Davey2010 and Charles (charlesdrakew), neither of whom possess much between the ears. A sampling of the AfD debates is enough to establish this. High level debate, it is not. Simplistic, tedious, repetitive, and disrespectful bordering on trollerly, it very much is.
The result is the bizarre mix of surviving content in the category linked above, which doesn't conform to the known systemic biases very much, but what is there is of no use to man or beast.
I hesitate to do this, because it will deprive me of a huge source of ongoing amusement, but to settle this nonsense once and for all, might I suggest to the tiny few number of sane Wikipedians that they are well past the point where an RfC should be held at WP:NOT, and it should say this......
The other reason for posting the question obviously, is that there is a high chance it will never be posed, even though I have told them to do it. Ironically, their reluctance would probably be because they can already predict what an inconclusive car crash that RfC would become, proving yet again that Wikipedia's system of governance is not fit for purpose (unless you seriously believe this is a hard question to answer, in which case, INTO THE SEA WITH YOU!).Does the hosting of lists of bus routes violate what Wikipedia is not? If not, what criteria, if any, should (and should not) be used to specify if such a list is worthy of inclusion?