Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison between U.S. states and sovereign states by GDP per capita


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  17:45, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Comparison between U.S. states and sovereign states by GDP per capita

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What is the point of this article? How does it not violate WP:NOTDIR? Why are US states being singled out here? Rockstone Send me a message!  00:05, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Adding the similar
 * - Reywas92Talk 00:19, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
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 * Delete as per WP:INDISCRIMINATE, what is the point of comparing states to nations? LibStar (talk) 00:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that there's value in making that comparison (U.S. states are kind of like countries in a lot of respects), but I don't think that it makes sense to have an article about it, unless we're going to make one for every country with a federal government. --  Rockstone  Send me a message!  00:28, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I think that there's value in making that comparison (U.S. states are kind of like countries in a lot of respects), but I don't think that it makes sense to have an article about it, unless we're going to make one for every country with a federal government. --  Rockstone  Send me a message!  00:28, 12 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete all (ec) I added two other very similar articles, if that's okay, and . We also have List of states and territories of the United States by GDP and List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita/List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita, etc., but I don't see a basis to combine US states and countries in a single article. Why not have more articles arbitrarily comparing Canadian provinces? Or states in any other country? We may have lists for other subdivisions, but no need to combine them in this way, especially so in the case of Comparison between U.S. states and countries by GDP (PPP), which semi-arbitrarily and unencyclopedically adds up Texas+New Jersey+Vermont=Italy. Reywas92Talk 00:18, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete all per WP:IINFO. The initially nominated page was also deprodded by without explanation or improvement. –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 00:56, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That user has been doing that repeatedly, he also did it to other (rather uncontroversial) deletions. -- Rockstone  Send me a message!  01:22, 12 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Weak keep I'm sympathetic to the nomination given the article's current state; this is pretty close to a case of WP:TNT. Nevertheless, there is reliable sourcing for this topic, and despite the somewhat niche libertarian origins, there is still mainstream coverage, eg The Economist and Voice of America (although the former is somewhat libertarian).


 * Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 05:15, 15 January 2022 (UTC)


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