Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of U.S. communities with caucasian majority populations


 * 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 delete. Wikipedia isn't for infinite lists. -- John Reaves 16:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

List of U.S. communities with caucasian majority populations

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I don't have hard statistics to back this up, but I'd reckon a majority of all communities in the U.S. fall under this criterion. Any list that proposes to give such a voluminous number of individual communities would take enormous effort to maintain: effort that would have to be recommenced every time there is a census. It goes without saying that the list as it stands is woefully incomplete. As for the intersection of topics represented, it might have some minor sociological interest, but is it really worth the effort? I can't think of many circumstances in which this will be found useful. deranged bulbasaur 09:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete This has been floated as a possible article, so, happily, it doesn't have much content yet, and won't be missed when it's deleted. The title is not at all misleading: the intent appears to be to list U.S. "communities" where more than 50 percent of the residents are Caucasian (which in Census Bureau language doesn't include Caucasians of Hispanic descent), although even that rule is broken by the reference to Los Angeles.  A demographer, however, would have a more precise definition than community, and would be aware that a list of municipalities (or even counties, or neighborhoods in a particular zip code) that are more than 50% White would be a pretty long (and not very useful list).  Stats like that are compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, which recently listed Mitchell County, Iowa, and Magoffin County, Kentucky, as being having a 99 percent White majority.  "U.S. communities with caucasian majority populations" would not be a very worthwhile article, even if it were written by someone who has accumulated a bit more background in demographics.  Mandsford 13:37, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. I agree that this list looks woefully incomplete, and/or that there's an element of editor judgment on which cities have been included on the list. If we were to list every community in the US—even just every community over 50,000 people—with a white-majority population, the list would be long and cumbersome.
 * That said, I'm going to short-circuit the "but what about..." arguments for the other lists, e.g. List of U.S. communities with African American majority populations. Even without taking WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS into account, the other lists make notable subjects because the lists are more than likely shorter (i.e. less editorial control about which cities are included) and more likely to have been independently written about (I used to live in DC, and I know that the Washington Post mentions that a majority of the population of Prince George's County, Maryland is African American when it is relevant to the news story). —C.Fred (talk) 13:40, 19 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete, I could see the point if it was for a West African country, but not this. Punkmorten 13:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Really pointless. -- Cat chi? 16:53, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This list might be remotely defensible if it took all its data from each periodic census and limited itself to only the largest communities. However if you read our article Caucasian race you may begin to get the idea that 'race' is a social construct, so it's not very plausible to try to construct an objective list on this basis. Like 'List of cities containing many people generally regarded as tall' would be hopeless, due to arbitrariness, and the American census bureau plays around with the definition of Caucasian all the time. As of this writing, Hispanics are not Caucasian, for example. EdJohnston 19:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This would include hundreds, even thousands, of cities, that would make it be split up into seperate lists. Its probably a majority of all communities in the US. - Presidentman 22:43, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I know WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS isn't a valid argument, but List of U.S. communities with African American majority populations is also nominated for deletion. Dbromage  [Talk]  00:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * "Response" The poorly written article, and that well-written article, are as different as... uh, black and white.  It's not the concept, it's the execution.  Mandsford 17:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - The page as it is titled would be too long and not easy to construct. Community is too arbitrary.  As mentioned earlier this might make sense if it were in a country where there are fewer whites.Brusegadi 01:32, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as being a list of loosely associated items Corpx 02:34, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. --Acntx 10:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a non-notable,clear POV fork of List of U.S. communities with African American majority populations, espcially given the article creator's comment here. Tarc 17:19, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete list would be endless, as it would include probably 80% of all geographical cities, states, countries, communities,places,etc. within the United States. If this is kept, we may as well have a List of places in the World. That would be almost as endless as this list.-- Sef rin gle Talk 03:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per virtually everything above. Recommend speedy per WP:SNOW, not to mention WP:POINT. Newyorkbrad 04:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletions.   — Sef rin gle Talk 04:01, 21 August 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.