Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by value


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The result was Keep. UltraExactZZ Claims~ Evidence 03:40, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

List of countries by value

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A cluttered mess of random statistics presented in a barely coherent manner. The material is redundant as it can all be found on other wiki pages and the concept of "countries by value" seems to be made up by the article creator. Sbw01f 05:47, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, the article is pretty coherent, it is a sortable table which merges together lists like List of countries by GDP (nominal) and List of countries by birth rate. Whether we need such a "master duplicate" however is another story. I am neutral to that. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment The table doesn't rank countries by "value", but by population; hence China is #2, India #3, the United States #5 (the nations of World and European Union are #1 and #4, respectively) Mandsford (talk) 13:11, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you click on the arrows in the headings of the tables, you can sort them by other "values" (I guess this is where "by value" in the title comes from). Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, seem to be quite a useful list without problems, and as noted the ambiguous title is likely because it tracks so many different factors. Nyttend (talk) 14:19, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * So what is the purpose of the article? All of the data can be found on other articles. It's just a giant list of random statistics mashed together, how is this encyclopedic? If someone wants to see a list of countries by population, GDP, birth rate, death rate etc.. they can already find all that on wikipedia in a more coherently presented manner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbw01f (talk • contribs) 17:12, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


 * keep and improve. A useful, encyclopedic one place to go collection of stats.  Instead of being nominated for deletion, it should be considered for Featured List status. Hmains (talk) 03:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep I use this table frequently. It makes sense to have a master list of political states which gathers data from other lists.  I like the sort function on this one.  It's useful to be able to sort by one measure and than compare the other measures.  The rank is useful for finding a particular country after a resort. I'd like to see other measures related to economy/ecology included such as land area, sea-coast length, population density, urbanization, etc. Such a list would soon become unwieldy, which leads to a technical question.  Is it possible to have a table in which one can choose which columns or measures are displayed?  Prakuyo (talk) 08:50, 28 February 2008 (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.