Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Capital of the World


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The result was   delete per WP:SNOW. Keeper  |   76   |   Disclaimer  22:02, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Capital of the World
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The article consists of little else but a long list of cities. Calling any city "Capital of the World" is a rather bold claim, and this is based only on a little-known list by a newspaper in London. Incidentally, London London won the title Capital of the World... Lists of this kind, and one many similar topics, are produced more or less all the time in newspapers all over the world. I've seen lists on the World's sexiest cities (Rio de Janeiro), on the World's rudest people (the English), on the cities with the higest number of one-night stands (Helsinki) and so on. I don't see how inherently unscientific and non-notable lists of this kind has any place on Wikipedia. JdeJ (talk) 18:21, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, reflects only the opinion of this one publication. There is already a corresponding category. WillOakland (talk) 18:44, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to London where this would be a nicely sourced accolade. Colonel Warden (talk) 19:39, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete As noted by others, magazines and newspapers will sometimes contribute a ranking of some sort. Whether it's greatest films of all time, sexiest people, best Chinese restaurant in a small town that has one Chinese restaurant, or whatever, these help keep circulation up, but they generally are not history.  The link is to an article that speaks of "measurable and objective data"; unfortunately, that link was broken before stub was written, so we'll never really know.  Nice to see a British newspaper declare London to be the number one city, and three days before Christmas too!  Mandsford (talk) 20:57, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete seems like original research to me. TrekFanatic (talk) 21:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable. Just repeats a newspaper story. (Besides which, Seattle wasn't on the list.) Northwestgnome (talk) 13:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Hey! I don't think I saw Boston! Anyway that is just some original research. -- Vh o scythe chatter 15:28, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete — Barcelona is not THAT important... -- ざくら 木 19:38, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom NN Dreamspy (talk) 20:00, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. We used to have an article that was a list of all the cities that were the X capital of the Y, e.g. corn capital of the United States or whatnot. I thought it was OK, myself, but it apparently went away. This is not as good as that article. --Dhartung | Talk 04:43, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - This AFD has more interesting discussion than likely went into making that list. LonelyBeacon (talk) 06:50, 6 July 2008 (UTC)


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