Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries and dependencies by area in 1989


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  00:10, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

List of countries and dependencies by area in 1989

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Non- notable article with no independent notability on it's own from the main countries and dependences by area list article. A very arbitrary article that just picks a certain moment in history. The year before the fall of communism and as it states in the first sentence "This is a list of countries by area in 1989, providing an overview of the world population before the fall of the Iron Curtain."

There could be plenty of articles about some period in time when borders and land area of nations changed. Such as the end of European colonization in Africa, Asia, or even earlier when Spain lost it's former territories in Latin America.

Also there is no source for what makes this notable on it's own and we have something based on original research. All the notes and references listed are the same or if not the same can be or are used in the original article.

I think this also falls under No stats as this is some random information at a random point in time. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 17:22, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 17:22, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Lists.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  18:34, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nom. This seems to be just an idea somebody had, which is explicitly not what Wikipedia is for. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 19:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete This is something to look up in the 1989 edition of the World Book, not for a current-day online encyclopedia.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 20:22, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Comment Weird that population is mentioned only in that lead sentence! —Tamfang (talk) 20:41, 22 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Falls within the existing List of sovereign states in the 1980s, and I don't think we want to expand that article series to individual years and intersect that with area. CMD (talk) 07:13, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment There is also the population equivalent List of countries by population in 1989. TompaDompa (talk) 13:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I think this could be encyclopaedic, we just need some evidence that it's not WP:OR. The year isn't arbitrary. SportingFlyer  T · C  02:56, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom. There really is not much of a point in including lists of past states and countries by size from arbitrarily-picked years. ArkHyena (talk) 21:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per above and WP:TNT. This list is bordering, pardon the pun, on arbitrary and capricious. I can't believe someone went through all this work. Bearian (talk) 19:49, 29 April 2024 (UTC)


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