Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of selected cities by population density (2nd nomination)


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The result was  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 18:40, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

List of selected cities by population density
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This underwent an AFD in July, with the following nomination rationale: ''The article has no defined criteria for inclusion, and as such, is useless as a list. From WP:LIST - “Lists should always include unambiguous statements of membership criteria”. The article's ambiguous title means it can't provide this. Further, the article is predominantly unsourced, and I believe the calculation of the population densities by users (as stated at the top of the article) can be considered original research.'' This is true, but the AFD was closed as no consensus since some people said things like "keep but define criteria". This has not happened, and as such it is still a collection of random facts as described above. Punkmorten 21:07, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. No definition of criteria here.  NA SC AR Fan 24 (radio me!) 22:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Comment "Perhaps it needs some work; the "selected cities" title is unfortunate, since the locations are worldwide and are chosen for their density, or, in the case of some notable locations, their lack of density. Moreover, there probably needs to be more of an explanation as to the criteria, although one can infer that it's based on the "city limits" of a municipality with its own government. I'd never heard of Levallois-Perret but it apparently is such a municipality, and similar in origins and in name to Levittown; this is a good companion piece to Population denisities; the stats on Manila and Cairo are revealing. Mandsford 03:03, 6 July 2007 (UTC)" I'm sorry to report that three months later, nothing seems to have changed. Mandsford 22:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Three months is long enough to conclude nothing is going to happen. --RaiderAspect 12:32, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Note that List of the most densely populated country subdivisions has similar info with clearer objective. Brianlucas 23:01, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. No clear criteria, semi-random collection of numbers w/o much of context. Comparing apples to oranges, small densely populated districts with whole cities. Pavel Vozenilek 23:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete A list with no criteria as to how cities are "selected". Seems to be a random collection and not very useful. -- Kudret abi Talk 07:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)


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