Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Intercommunalities of the Pyrénées-Orientales department


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The result was keep. Peacent 03:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Intercommunalities of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

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Page contains little information on its own and neither assertion of notability nor context. If one does not know much about inner French organization, this is a pretty inaccessible page. It lists a certain type of community in a subregion of France, as far as I can tell, and adds no further information about them. If this information needs to be kept at all, it should be kept inline with the main article at Pyrénées-Orientales, which is not a large enough page to require splitting off subpages. Page is nearly orphaned -- the one link from the main namespace is from the article linked above, where it could be merged into. Deltopia 16:25, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into Pyrénées-Orientales. Not enough content to be worth a separate article. EyeSereneTALK 16:38, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Deleting this could be seen as systematic bias: there is at least this much information about similar geographical divisions in the USA and UK (e.g. List of civil parishes in Warwickshire, which seems to describe areas of similar geographical size to the ones described by the article being considered). That there isn't much information here is an opportunity to expand the article, not delete it.  JulesH 20:17, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and suggest expansion at a wikiproject. Better one group article on all the intercommunalities (which are, very roughly, analogous to counties) than an article on each individual one. I agree that there's some WP:BIAS in the idea that American counties and British civil parishes are somehow notable but French intercommunalities are not. -- Charlene 21:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 15:43, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as encyclopedic list. The article lists populations, and populated places are notable, making the Notability argument in the nom moot. The rest of the nom seems to be a case of WP:BIAS. Dhaluza 00:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. We have articles on individual communes in France. An intercommunalité is the next step up the hierarchy of government in the country, so obviously not non-notable entities. (Incidentally, an intercommunalité is much larger than an Engish parish, but the equivalent of a county is the ''dépatement'.) Emeraude 13:24, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This particular list of intercommunalities is important because of different usages of terms between French and Catalan. As such, it is a little harder to keep an NPOV&mdash;not impossible, by any means, but editors need to be aware of other usages. I also subscribe to the points of view above that French intercommunalities are inherently notable. Physchim62 (talk) 15:09, 17 July 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.