Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by ratio of carbon dioxide emissions to GDP per capita


 * 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. W.marsh 20:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

List of countries by ratio of carbon dioxide emissions to GDP per capita
This page had a prod tag which was uncontested, but the creator of the article has not edited since October and is probably unaware of the concerns that have been raised, but he obviously put a lot of effort into it and I don't think it's fair for it to be deleted solely for lack of attention, so I moved it here for discussion purposes. No vote. — CharlotteWebb 09:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

For these reasons I suggest this page is deleted. sbandrews 13:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, air pollution is always a topical issue, and this article looks well researched. --Candy-Panda 10:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT (not an encyclopedic article, but a heap of 2002 statistics - perhaps in Wikisource, but not here, please). Moreover it looks badly researched and erroneous - look at the 57th USA, which has better O2/GDP ratio than 56th Samoa according to the table...--Ioannes Pragensis 11:22, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to wikisource or merge as suggesed. Errors can be corrected, but it's certainly not original research. Lists are a perfectly valid way to order encyclopedic statistics, though. - Mgm|(talk) 11:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete
 * This page contains many errors.
 * 1) As it now stands, the table and the title of the page are showing different things, 'List of countries by ratio of carbon dioxide emissions to GDP per capita' for the title, and 'List of Countries by Ratio of Emissions per capita to GDP per capita' for the table.
 * 2) If you divide 'X per capita' by 'Y per capita' you get X/Y, in this case carbon dioxide emissions to GDP, a list for which already exists here albeit the inverse, i.e. Y/X.
 * 3) The table of the title, 'List of countries by ratio of carbon dioxide emissions to GDP per capita' makes no sense, as if would be an 'efficiency per capita', which would lead to countries with a large population looking like they were doing well compared to a small country.
 * 4) A table of efficiency per capita, as was clearly the intention of this page would be original research.
 * Delete, WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of statistics either. Entirely unneeded list. Prod disputed effectively due to WP:ILIKEIT. Seraphimblade 14:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This topic appears to be covered adequately in List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions. List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita, List of countries by ratio of GDP to carbon dioxide emissions, and List of countries by ratio of carbon dioxide emissions to GDP per capita just look like more ways to break down this data without really providing any additional insight.  GDP explains how much economic output a nation has, but it doesn't really correlate with how much carbon dioxide a nation "should" be using.  Delete.  --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 15:51, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * delete Marginally OR, but more importantly effectively duplicates List of countries by ratio of GDP to carbon dioxide emissions as Sbandrews says. The latter appears to be better maintained and has a nice graph William M. Connolley 16:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Sbandrews' second and 4th reasons (so I guess per William really). JoshuaZ 16:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as duplicated list (but ignore WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE objections) The list does appear to duplicate other list articles, so deleting and redirecting to the other lists probably makes sense. However, a few of the comments above reference WP:NOT. Note that that section of policy does not deal with lists of statistics at all. It deals, rather, with types of articles that present certian problems for Wikipedia in terms of verification and style and thus can be discriminated against for inclusion.  So arguments based on WP:NOT should be ignored as it does apply to this type of article. Dugwiki 20:01, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge with List of countries by ratio of GDP to carbon dioxide emissions and keep the resulting article. Fg2 01:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment this list is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Fg2 01:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a duplicate of lists mentioned above. It does strike me as indiscriminate as well.  The ratio of CO2 emissions against how much people buy/sell with a nation?  How is that useful or necessary? The factual accuracy of this article is severely in question as well. Resolute 08:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, duplicate, and the fact that synthesis of existing work (the GDP and emissions data) is very much original research. Proto ::  ►  13:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as duplicate, per above. Sandstein 19:58, 1 February 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.