Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Four State Area


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The result was deletion. RyanG e rbil10 (Упражнение В!) 05:39, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Four State Area

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As myself and others have noticed on the talk page, the only reference to it on google is the page itself. There are some references on google to a four state area that is a broad region, whose metropolitan center is not Joplin, Missouri. However seeing as how the article is serving basically as the Joplin Metropolitan Area page, and contains nothing in its title to distinguish itself from other four state areas or even to locate it in Missouri, its validity is in question as well as its purpose. Grey Wanderer 00:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:V, etc. ŞρІϊţ ۞ ĨήƒϊήίтҰ (тąιк 00:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and merge useful content into Joplin, Missouri. (The latter seems quite well-written so there's probably nothing to merge.) Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 00:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and follow as Jobjorn said. -- t e  h   tennis  man  01:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:V. &mdash; Seadog Talk 02:05, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, as well as that it notes its unofficial status. --Dennisthe2 02:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Third one. I'm on a roll tonight.  --Dennisthe2 02:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:V.  S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7  03:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. MER-C 04:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:V. Ter e nce Ong 04:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * comment: 'four state area' refers to many more places than these, there's a quote from George Carlin (I beleive part of the Al Sleet routine) to the effect "no matter what state you're in, you're in a four-state area." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wintermut3 (talk • contribs) 04:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC).


 * Keep: The phenomena of "Four State" isn't exactly a common one that every person grows up experiencing.  Growing up in central Virginia, I'd never heard any other state referenced. Nor did I experience it in Southern California or later in the D.C. Metropolitan area.  Rather than rashly delete this article, I suggest that it be modified to include other "Four State" areas.  However, I can attest and a smart Google search can reveal, that the "Four State" slogan is very strongly followed in the Joplin region.  With little effort on the Joplin talk page, I threw out three links to two major tv affiliates and a national restaurant chain that identified the area as Four States.  Thus, I don't think it'd be hard to verify it.  So keep. Modify. Expand. ~ (The Rebel At) ~  05:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutral for now... simply because the term is used regionally does not make it the basis for an encyclopedic article. There are similar regionalisms for "tri-county", "tri-city", "quad-county", etc., and to have lengthy articles (or one article with multiple definitions) on each similar non-politically demarcated term would border on an indiscriminate collection of information. However, if possible, the presentation at Tri-state area or something like Ark-La-Tex could be used as a basis for a simpler article that does not essentially repeat the information found in the Joplin city article. -- Kinu t /c  06:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, changing my recommendation, given the broadness and the looseness of definition in the term. Given the information Jobjörn points out, they can't even decide whether its 3 or 4 states... -- Kinu t /c  07:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: It seems that some information related to this - at least the Joplin district - is included in Tri-state area. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 13:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete and Merge, per Jobjörn - Advanced 18:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.TheRingess 20:18, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This phrase is simply too popular (I'd imagine wherever you get 4 states abutting one another) to single this out as the exemplar.  SkierRMH 21:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Just H 00:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Would this be a neologism? FirefoxMan 16:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Just to note, any use of Tri-State with Joplin seems to be entirely restricted to the mining subject. Four state is the most wide spread and often used reference.  I'd suggest the Four State article be turned into something similar to the above linked Tri-state area. ~ (The Rebel At) ~  18:39, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Not very useful. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thedreamdied (talk • contribs).
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