Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Downtown Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego


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The result was Delete -- JForget 02:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Downtown Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego

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Article that simply excerpts from the lead sections of other articles. These are distinct cities with separate articles and this combined article and title seems extremely unlikely to be of any value. Hawaiian717 21:56, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete pointless article. There are already separate articles for the three of the four downtown areas. All information in this article is already in either the city or downtown articles. There is no reason why someone would search the above phrase so a redirect is useless. --Polaron | Talk 22:04, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, and because this article's basic concept is flawed. It claims to list only the "main" central business districts in Southern California. But how do we decide what is and is not a "main" central business district without engaging in original research and using arbitrary inclusion criteria? Why isn't Long Beach's downtown a "main central business district"? How about Irvine? Warner Center? All four of the cities discussed in this article are county seats, but why isn't Santa Ana here? It's a large city with a distinct downtown, just like San Bernardino, Riverside and the rest. And why can't existing articles cover Southern California's downtowns adequately? Aside from the individual city articles, Greater Los Angeles Area and Southern California can easily cover this subject. szyslak  22:15, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete--Obviously a misbegotten subject choice. I concur with the reasoning above. BTfromLA 22:26, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - We don't need this. All the content is in the specific aritlcs and nobody in their right mind would use the search term "Downtown Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego" if they wanted information on one or more of the downtowns. --Oakshade 00:34, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Any chance the article creator User:Ie909 is this guy: User:House1090? He also moved Inland Empire (CA) to Riverside-San Bernardino Area without consensus and is currently messing up a navbox I made of IE universities. Amerique dialectics 02:21, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I just moved it back to Inland Empire (CA). --Oakshade 07:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually you apparently did a cut and paste move and did not move the talk page. I undid the cut and past move.  If it needs to be moved use WP:RM.  Also you may want to consider a move back to [Inland Empire (California)]] which is what appears on the dab page. Vegaswikian 08:03, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I just didn't know how to move it properly as it wouldn't let me since Inland Empire (CA) already existed. --Oakshade 08:21, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. Agree with nomination. Article provides nothing new. Trying to run comparisons without adequate sourcing would be original research. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:23, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete; this is completely pointless. --NE2 13:01, 8 November 2007 (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.