Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Istanbul


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The result was   redirect to Istanbul Province. The arguments for keeping the article are unconvincing. If Istanbul Province is not the most ideal redirect target, feel free to redirect it elsewhere. ‑Scottywong | verbalize _ 19:52, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Greater Istanbul

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The limits of city of Istanbul are the same as Istanbul Province. So there is nothing such as Great Istanbul.Rapsar (talk) 13:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete or redirect, unless reliable sources have been provided showing that Greater Istanbul is an established notion different from Istanbul and the Istanbul Province.--Ymblanter (talk) 01:33, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Istanbul, or Delete. Previous versions of the Istanbul article stated that the «Istanbul Province has 39 districts (2009), of which 27 form the city proper of Istanbul, also called Greater Istanbul», also this article has been around since 2005 consisting of the very same sentence ever since, a clear sign it has not much of a chance of ever growing (possibly because nothing - much - distinguishes it from Istanbul), but also meaning it may be a useful link by now. - Nabla (talk) 05:35, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Turkey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:00, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Yes İstanbul Municipality covers whole İstanbul Province. But please read the article. It doesn't refer to istanbul Province. It refers to a wider region around İstanbul (just like say Çukurova (Cilicia)). The article is a stub and the author doesn't give the limits of the region or the number of provinces included in the region. But the population 24 million seems to refer to whole of Thrace and most of north western Anatolia. I'll call the editor to be more specific. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 13:18, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 00:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

 
 * Note: The term does seem to be used in English, making deletion undesirable. See a travel guide (one of many) or a scholarly-looking book. See Google Books search in general. Note that the first version of the article gave 13 million as the population, same as the official figure cited in the travel guide I linked. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 00:52, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Gong   show  06:33, 9 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep A search of the term in a sentence yields good results. Its like The Portland Metropolitan Area PortlandOregon97217 (talk) 07:07, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Weird enough, top of the search I get a google map of "Istanbul Dr., Adelaide, Australia"! :-) I still think redirect, but would not oppose keeping if anything other than "it is basically the same as Istanbul" shows up - Nabla (talk) 10:33, 9 January 2013 (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.