I feel like any realistic criteria for usefulness would place a real-life road over obscure comic book characters, which are pretty extensively documented in Wikipedia.
This character appeared in five comic book issues around winter 1939-1940.
I’m not saying that they don’t deserve a Wikipedia article. But I have a hard time believing that there is more need for information about a character that appeared in a few comic book issues eighty years back than a road that people are actually making use of today.
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Why should encyclopedias include every single road in the USA?
I feel like any realistic criteria for usefulness would place a real-life road over obscure comic book characters, which are pretty extensively documented in Wikipedia.
googles for a random example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magician_from_Mars
This character appeared in five comic book issues around winter 1939-1940.
I’m not saying that they don’t deserve a Wikipedia article. But I have a hard time believing that there is more need for information about a character that appeared in a few comic book issues eighty years back than a road that people are actually making use of today.
I mean, there are at most 500 pages on Golden Age Superheroes yet over 1000 on New York roads alone.