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The result was delete. based on the argument that this is a content fork and duplicates information available elsewhere. Liz Read! Talk! 22:49, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Cities and metropolitan areas of the United States
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This article is totally bizarre. All of the sources all come from one source which is the Census. It's probably a content fork of Statistical area (United States) which covers similar territory. Interstellarity ( talk) 23:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography, Lists, and United States of America. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:32, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete Duplicates several other articles such as List of United States cities by population. WeirdNAnnoyed ( talk) 03:02, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete This a redundant article that does not offer anything new or useful that can't be found elsewhere in Wikipedia Paul H. ( talk) 14:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Keep: This table provides data from the United States Census Bureau in a structure that is more readily understood. I feel that this article is very useful. Yours aye, Buaidh talk e-mail 02:37, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete: A useless combination of
List of United States cities by population and
Statistical area (United States) § List of primary statistical areas. The table in
§ Rank table is notably difficult to parse and can only lead to confusion. However, I will note that the comment
all of the sources all come from one source which is the Census
is not a reason for deletion or even for the article being bad: the Census is the sole source for most of this data, and the data in Statistical area (United States) also comes only from the Census and the OMB. Dan • ✉ 21:30, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Keep I can't make an argument other than "it's useful" but it's useful considering it formats information in a different way than the other articles - I think there was another similar article which is or was colour coded and would delete if it's duplicative of that. SportingFlyer T· C 17:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete Redundant list. Abhishek0831996 ( talk) 09:37, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
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The result was delete. based on the argument that this is a content fork and duplicates information available elsewhere. Liz Read! Talk! 22:49, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Cities and metropolitan areas of the United States
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This article is totally bizarre. All of the sources all come from one source which is the Census. It's probably a content fork of Statistical area (United States) which covers similar territory. Interstellarity ( talk) 23:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography, Lists, and United States of America. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 23:32, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete Duplicates several other articles such as List of United States cities by population. WeirdNAnnoyed ( talk) 03:02, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete This a redundant article that does not offer anything new or useful that can't be found elsewhere in Wikipedia Paul H. ( talk) 14:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Keep: This table provides data from the United States Census Bureau in a structure that is more readily understood. I feel that this article is very useful. Yours aye, Buaidh talk e-mail 02:37, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete: A useless combination of
List of United States cities by population and
Statistical area (United States) § List of primary statistical areas. The table in
§ Rank table is notably difficult to parse and can only lead to confusion. However, I will note that the comment
all of the sources all come from one source which is the Census
is not a reason for deletion or even for the article being bad: the Census is the sole source for most of this data, and the data in Statistical area (United States) also comes only from the Census and the OMB. Dan • ✉ 21:30, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Keep I can't make an argument other than "it's useful" but it's useful considering it formats information in a different way than the other articles - I think there was another similar article which is or was colour coded and would delete if it's duplicative of that. SportingFlyer T· C 17:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete Redundant list. Abhishek0831996 ( talk) 09:37, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.