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The result was delete. Joyous! Noise! 23:13, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
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- List of cities and towns in Michiana ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log | edits since nomination)
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Unreferenced list of cities and towns in an unofficial region with subjective boundaries. This explicitly defines itself as using a "narrow" definition, as opposed to a "wider" one, which means that the basic boundaries of what's even in the region in the first place are up for debate and dispute -- which, in turn, means that it's effectively unmaintainable in a Wikipedia context, if there are such open questions about what should or shouldn't even be listed here. And, indeed, this came to my attention because the page recently got decategorized in the process of an attempt to strip the Michigan subsection from the article entirely, which seems like an intentionally targeted content dispute rather than just for-the-lulz vandalism.
Since we already have a head article about
Michiana which already links to all the counties in it, and the counties in it in turn already link to all the communities in the counties, that means we already have the same information in other places anyway -- so it's just not clear that there's any pressing need to also maintain an omnibus list of all the individual communities in the region as its own standalone topic, especially if there isn't one objective universal definition of what the proper boundaries of the region even are.
Bearcat (
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13:07, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Indiana and Michigan. Bearcat ( talk) 13:07, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
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Skynxnex (
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15:53, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delete Agreed that it is redundant with the list within Michiana article EmeraldRange ( talk/ contribs) 16:08, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Joyous! Noise! 23:13, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
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- List of cities and towns in Michiana ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log | edits since nomination)
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Unreferenced list of cities and towns in an unofficial region with subjective boundaries. This explicitly defines itself as using a "narrow" definition, as opposed to a "wider" one, which means that the basic boundaries of what's even in the region in the first place are up for debate and dispute -- which, in turn, means that it's effectively unmaintainable in a Wikipedia context, if there are such open questions about what should or shouldn't even be listed here. And, indeed, this came to my attention because the page recently got decategorized in the process of an attempt to strip the Michigan subsection from the article entirely, which seems like an intentionally targeted content dispute rather than just for-the-lulz vandalism.
Since we already have a head article about
Michiana which already links to all the counties in it, and the counties in it in turn already link to all the communities in the counties, that means we already have the same information in other places anyway -- so it's just not clear that there's any pressing need to also maintain an omnibus list of all the individual communities in the region as its own standalone topic, especially if there isn't one objective universal definition of what the proper boundaries of the region even are.
Bearcat (
talk)
13:07, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Indiana and Michigan. Bearcat ( talk) 13:07, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the
deletion sorting lists for the following topics:
Geography and
Lists.
Skynxnex (
talk)
15:53, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
- Delete Agreed that it is redundant with the list within Michiana article EmeraldRange ( talk/ contribs) 16:08, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
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