Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of population centers by coordinates


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:29, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

List of population centers by coordinates

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Fails WP:SALAT. It's too broad, as every city in the world would have to be included. Also, just as an example Eureka and Nord are not even villages, much less population centers. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:39, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't think this fails WP:SALAT. It's a list you would expect to find in a print almanac, and other sources cover this so it's not WP:OR such as or . I do think it could be cleaned up a bit. SportingFlyer  T · C  21:26, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 22:21, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 22:21, 15 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Indiscriminate list and offers nothing more than what could be provided in Northernmost settlements and Southernmost settlements. Ajf773 (talk) 07:10, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete I merged List of population centers by latitude and List of population centers by longitude to this since they were basically identical, and then removed all "population centers" (which includes research bases apparently) with populations under 1000 people. That was reverted for unclear reasons, exemplifying the indiscriminate nature of this list. The reverter claimed it's because people use the list to see what the northernmost and southernmost places are, but that only highlights how indiscriminate this is by listing a handful of tiny villages but not other, larger polar settlements (and there are other articles for that). Anyway, I don't see the value of a page that simply lists coordinates of a huge number of random places since that's not really something people need to sort by. I fail to see why this list should be on Wikipedia because infoplease.com and priceoftravel.com have their own indiscriminate listings of coordinates, no one claimed this was OR... Maybe others can propose including coordinates at List of largest cities or something (List of United States cities by population has it).  Reywas92Talk 19:53, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The list is discriminate, it's just not properly defined. The lede says it's a "list of cities," but the title calls it a "list of population centers." You also have northernmost settlements. I don't think it's correct to say people use this just for northernmost/southernmost purposes, either. It helps you identify spatial relationships between cities on different latitudes. The article should be kept, moved to "List of cities by coordinates," and any row with less than a certain population threshold removed. SportingFlyer  T · C  20:13, 16 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete the purpose and focus on this list is not clear beyond its duplication of the two articles noted by the two !votes immediately above this one. It is diffiult to determine if a given city should or should not be included on the list.MadeYourReadThis (talk) 14:41, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep It sounds like people's main complaint is that the list is not complete, given its definition, and hence that it becomes arbitrary what is in the list and what isn't. There are two ways of handling this: One is by reducing the scope of the list to only larger places. The other is to expand the list to make it more complete. For example, I would like to see it renamed to "List of settlements", and covering the coordinates and population of all settlements in Wikipedia. Why do I prefer that to plain deletion or the reduction in scope? Because the end result is more useful: With population present in the list, anybody can apply whatever population threshold they wish themselves. However, if people think such a list would be too hard to make and maintain, then my second choice would be to reduce it to a list of cities like SportingFlyer suggests. Amaurea (talk) 15:10, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * So your way to fix the arbitrariness is by setting an arbitrary cutoff size? Your way to address the length issue is to make it longer by including not only cities, but anything down to settlements? Clarityfiend (talk) 07:47, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * An arbitrary cutoff size (by defining either "population centers" or "cities") would, in fact, make the list discriminate... SportingFlyer  T · C  07:58, 20 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete for the exact reason we don't have a List of cities - it is necessarily indiscriminate. The information is on other pages (every article on a city contains lat/long).  If there were some need for this categorization, pages such as 18th parallel north could include a list of cities on (or near) that parallel. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 17:05, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is a job for WikiData / SPARQL. --Slashme (talk) 06:59, 23 January 2019 (UTC)


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I see you deleted the talk page but the article itself was missed. Cheers, Reywas92Talk 06:35, 25 January 2019 (UTC)