Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of municipal parks in the United States


 * 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. If anyone wants the content userfied with which to create smaller articles, let me know.'''. Tan     39  00:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

List of municipal parks in the United States

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An indiscrimate list that will be next to impossible to complete or verify. Lists of this type would be better left to smaller jurisdictions. Millbrooky (talk) 03:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fundamentally unmaintainable in this form. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 04:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I cannot imagine a useful purpose for this list. A while back on the article talk page, I asked "What is the intended purpose of this list? I cannot imagine why anyone would want a list of all the municipal parks in the United States." No one replied. Also, as noted by by nominator and Morven, the list is fundamentally unmaintainable. It is pathetically under-populated relative to the universe of US municipal parks (my city of 28,000 people has 12 parks; do the arithmetic to estimate how many city parks there probably are nationwide), the vast majority of which are not notable. --Orlady (talk) 04:58, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep There are far stupider lists on Wikipedia, and while I can't possibly think of one, the time may come where the location of all municipal parks is needed. Update the list, but still, keep.
 * Delete, "stupider" lists might exist, but this one would be huge if complete. Lists of park districts by state, maybe. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 08:41, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Municipal parks are important, but they are properly listed in the article about the municipality. I appreciate the effort thus far made by the author, but there are thousands and thousands of municipal parks.  A complete list would be unlikely, and even if compiled, too voluminous to read and too impractical to maintain.  I had to laugh at the statement "There are far stupider lists", which is a good example of "damning with faint praise", isn't it?  "Don't feel bad Timmy, there are a lot of kids who are stupider than you are."  Technically, the term would be "more stupid".  As with the word "gullible", you won't find "stupider" in the dictionary, no matter how many dictionaries you look at, so don't feel too bad. Mandsford (talk) 13:16, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep and consider at the talk page whether to split it up by state. "Too long" is not reason for deletion, just for division. DGG (talk) 15:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - For clarification, when I mentioned smaller jursidictions in my nom, I was thinking city level, since even at the state level, this list would likely be unwieldly. Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield, Missouri have combined a population of ~950,000 and ~400 parks.  This may translate to over 2000 municipal parks for the state of Missouri alone, the vast majority of which are not notable.  I am aware that List of Registered Historic Places in St. Louis County, Missouri has ~500 entries and Missouri as a whole may have more than 2000, but every one of these entries is notable. --Millbrooky (talk) 16:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - At this time, sending the contents to municipalities would be pretty easy. As currently constituted, most of entries on the list are from just a handful of municipalities (notably including Chicago; Omaha; Philadelphia; Newport News; Peoria, Arizona; and Irvine, California). --Orlady (talk) 16:43, 30 July 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.