Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of country subdivisions by GDP (PPP)


 * 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. NW ( Talk ) 03:43, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

List of country subdivisions by GDP (PPP)

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Six items is hardly a "list". Information is 5 years out of date. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 23:54, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the idea of the page is good, just the execution is missing. There probably is no "missing content" template in the 'pedia? --Sigmundur (talk) 08:33, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:34, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete This is a very unsatisfactory article. It is (grossly) incomplete; it announces the list is for 2005 when two items state they are for 2008; the only reference is a broken link. The reference has been archived on Webcite however but this shows it was only concerned with U.S. states. The article's creator and major contributor was User:SebastienPoncet who was blocked for sockpuppetry (on dubious evidence?). Now, I suspect none of these is an argument for deletion but the overall situation is so very poor that if anyone wants to improve this article it would best be created all over again. Thincat (talk) 09:56, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but the this type of ranking is difficult original research.  Plus, it's been done elsewhere, as noted by the comment immediately below.  Mandsford 16:05, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete An abandoned project. There are other related lists in Wikpedia eg List of country subdivisions by GDP (nominal), List of country subdivisions by GDP per capita (nominal). But they are highly problematic, and I am not convinced of the validity of comparing England (pop 51.6m) with Hamburg (pop 1.8m) for example, because they stand in quite different relationship to their countries and surrounding geography, and the lists are full of such extremes. I agree with Mandsford that anything worthwhile will probably be OR and therefore not for Wikipedia. AJHingston (talk) 20:40, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep It's just another way of comparing economic regions of the world that economists use.  Nipson anomhmata   (Talk) 00:48, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment My attention has been drawn to the classification system NUTS used in the European Union for comparing regions at different geographical levels, as an example of how trained economists do this. Care is taken to ensure that comparisons are made at the appropriate level. It would rarely be considered useful to compare Tokyo with England; the appropriate comparison would be with, say, Greater London. Without any agreed approach and definitions I don't see how any such list as here can be useful and it is liable to mislead. AJHingston (talk) 00:53, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment I can see its usefulness. If California goes bust. It is useful to be able to compare how California compares with the United Kingdom on a chart like this.  Nipson anomhmata   (Talk) 01:03, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
 * As AJ has pointed out, this project has been undertaken in the form of List of country subdivisions by GDP (nominal), and the fellow who originally started this article, Poncet, appears to have made further contributions to that list. The "it's been done" discovery is probably the best explanation as to why this one was abandoned.  If someone wants to compare California to England, there's are two articles that supply useful information.  This isn't either of them. Mandsford 02:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think that it has been abandoned. I think that it is complete. The method of calculating GDP is different as is explained in the introduction and the reason that the list is short is also explained in the introduction. I think that this list is useful to people who understand the difference between PPP and nominal GDP calculations.  Nipson anomhmata   (Talk) 03:05, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Perhaps someone will agree. Mandsford 04:10, 31 January 2011 (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.