Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Western Norway Region


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 06:19, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Greater Western Norway Region

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The category Category:Metropolitan regions of Norway contains a wealth of horrible, unsourced articles on supposed "metropolitan areas" in Norway, but this is probably the worst of them all. Somehow, someone has managed to construct a "metropolitan area" out of a large part of the West Coast of Norway, an area spanning no less than 260 km from north to south. Worst of all, I can find no reference to this "metropolitan area" anywhere at all, including SSB.no, which is of course rather unsurprising as it really doesn't exist in any form at all. Please, for the good of Wikipedia and in order to protect us against Norwegian journalists that cite horrible Wikipedia articles as a pastime, delete this article and preferably also the others in its category, although that is out of scope of this AFD. Aqwis (talk) 21:45, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. If the Norwegian government doesn't even recognize this region, then who does? Eddie.willers (talk) 23:30, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, a fantasy construction. Although I could see a future article on Nord-Jæren. Punkmorten (talk) 09:36, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as original reseach --Kjetil r (talk) 16:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom as WP:OR or WP:SYNTH. Bearian (talk) 19:13, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Bergen and Stavanger are not part of any single "metropolitan region". There is one fairly large town between them (Haugesund), and between these towns, the islands and fjords are fairly rural. The two cities are quite separate, and a journey by road between them takes about four hours. The "statistical division" doesn't exist. Norwegians do refer to a Norwegian region called Vestlandet (Western Norway) which in addition to encompassing Bergen and Stavanger includes a number of cities and towns in counties further north. That article is verifiable and belongs on Wikipedia, this article on the other hand does not. Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:OR. Arsenikk (talk)  11:31, 15 May 2009 (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.