Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cities by number of 100 biggest world companies


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Petros471 15:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

List of cities by number of 100 biggest world companies
List of no apparent value based on OR. Amterdam and Den Haag merged for no reason. Nuttah68 13:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete' --FuriousFreddy 13:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - cruft. --Arnzy (whats up?)  14:17, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Rename & Keep I think the list has considerable value, as much as those that show per capita income in $PPP, for example. It also has notability: globalization, concentration, networking are all very notable. I made a few changes to it to try to increase its chances of surviving. I'm not the author but just stumbled on this article while reviewing the AfD discussion. Yes, it is based on OR (original research) but then again, all articles here are going to be based, directly or indirectly, on such OR. As I understand it, they cannot BE original research but should ideally be verifiable, most often in terms of a chain of citations that lead back to OR. I added the references (but not citations) to two of Saskia Sassen's two books, each of which establishes the importance of measures/ranks like those in the article. But I think the article needs to be renamed. I chose concentration of major corporatate headquarters for my intro, which I think is a compromise between reasonable fidelity to the original title and sufficient generality for future contributions. Inter lingua  talk 14:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete The list isn't actually there and it would be a copyvio if it was. There is more than one way to define company size (and "city" for that matter) so it will be misleading at best. Honbicot 18:48, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete topic is imprecise as we do not know what a city is or what "biggest" means. Further, the difficulty in monitoring the market for corporate control makes it impractical even for governments to define who owns or has relevant interests in what company accurately most of the time. Jammo (SM247) 23:25, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Jammo. &mdash; Khoikhoi  04:07, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete many big companies in developing countries like in Russia does not presented on market and does not even publish their financial information. Elk Salmon 10:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Rename per Interlingua. -- Avenue 03:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


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