Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hierarchy of town settlement

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Hierarchy of town settlement
While I believe that this was a good faith contribution, I believe that it is original research. I am not aware of this "spectrum" as a recognized set of classes in urban planning, demographic analysis or cartography. I'm willing to be proven wrong but the article is also, unfortunately, incorrect. The correct distinction between a village and a hamlet is whether or not it has a church. Likewise, the technical difference between a town and a city is whether or not it has a cathedral. (I did not correct the article because that would have reduced it to a mere list of dictionary definitions.) Rossami (talk) 05:33, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. Another suspect post by User:SamuraiClinton.  RickK 06:02, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, there is something to be said about this; I don't know if we have it anywhere, but this isn't it. --SPUI (talk) 08:11, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, while there might be some scope for this sort of information in some article, this is not an auspicious beginning. I'm not sure where Rossami hails from, but in the U.S., the distinctions have little if anything to do with churches or cathedrals. But that only begins to highlight problems in that there are likely many cultural differences in how these terms are used. older &ne; wiser 15:44, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research without independent verification - David Gerard 19:32, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as mentioned by previous two voters. In some USA states, a "town" is formally a minor civil division:  counties are divided into towns, and a town may contain zero, one, or several villages or other census places.  In other states, "town" is informally equivalent to "village".  In neither case are the old British church/cathedral definitions valid.  The edit history of the article's poster raises suspicion of verifiability, and VfD voters have already demonstrated that there is not a single international standard for such things.  Barno 21:13, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Yet another User:SamuraiClinton timewaste. Actually one his better contributions, but as others point out there is no universal standard that would support his scheme. Fawcett5 22:36, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I initially hoped that an article like this could become a good but brief direction over English usage in this tricky field (for many foreigners aswell as for some native English speakers), but seeing the arguments above, I guess the best thing would be to delete this article and wait for something better. Ruhrjung 08:12, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

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