Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Midwestern cities by size


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 06:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

List of Midwestern cities by size
This is a list of all the muncipalities in the Midwest United States with more than 10,000 inhabitants (858 of them). Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Wikipedia is not a census. (There are not corresponding lists for other regions.) —Centrx→talk &bull; 19:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. It could use some citation, but it is an article that many might find useful. Wikipedia is not a census, but this focuses more around the ranking than the population totals, and I would hardly describe this as being part of an "indiscriminate collection of information." Perhaps the basement population of 10,000 is a little small, though. --Thorne N. Melcher 00:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Thorne N. Melcher, and to respond to the floor of 10,000, perhaps Top 500 would be a better qualification. That way it wouldn't fluctuate so much. SliceNYC 01:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The article's title does not specify the country it discusses — all countries have a Midwest. If the article is kept, please move it to a more appropriate title. -- Alias Flood 03:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Midwest automatically redirects to the Midwestern United States, with a note on top to also look at Brazil and Australia's midwestern regions. It's generally thought of as a US thing. SliceNYC 19:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment. Note that if this list belongs on Wikipedia, it would be acceptable to have thousands of similar lists: "List of Northeastern cities by size", "List of northeastern German cities by size", "List of Illinois cities by size". We don't even have "List of American cities by size", though there is "List of U.S. cities with Asian American majority populations". —Centrx→talk &bull; 04:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete The Midwest is such an arbitrary region. I could maybe see a list like this per state or country, though. Kirjtc2 12:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Midwestern United States does a good job of explaining how the term Midwest has been used historically, geographically and in the census. It doesn't seem arbitrary. SliceNYC 19:27, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Keep, someone could add the list for other regions of the USA. Carlossuarez46 20:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Data that this list is based on loses value over time.  Is it still accurate?  Vegaswikian 17:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep This is the sort of thing Wikipedia does well.--Runcorn 17:19, 6 August 2006 (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.