Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas


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The result was no consensus. North America1000 11:13, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas

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We already have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_South_America and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America with this article simply combining the other two articles. Legacypac (talk) 07:53, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep I see value in having a list of all countries in the Americas on its own page. The "Americas" is an encyclopedic topic generally, given the interrelationship between the countries and the Columbus exploration event, so having a list seems warranted. Also these lists don't change very much, so I don't see a problem in terms of effort maintaining the 3 pages. (The are also pages for other lists List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean for other regional groupings, and these all make sense in my opinion) --   R45    talk! 15:04, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. On the contrary, I don't see a value for having a duplicated list, and the topic is well covered in other articles. The effort in maintaining the 3 pages is not negligible, at least for vandal-fighting if not for any other reason. The quite long history of this article shows that a significant effort has been put to maintain it, without a clear benefit for the reader. No such user (talk) 14:41, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Just another complied list as it refer super continent like List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Eurasia. --Ant a n O 14:49, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:23, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Which is equally useless as it covers about 1/2 the countries in the world. Legacypac (talk) 06:47, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:49, 27 October 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 14:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't see value in having this or the Eurasia one either. The lists get an average of about 40 views each per day, which is not alot considering the individual continent lists they're linked from which get hundreds of views each per day, with Africa and Europe regularly getting 1000+. Rainbow unicorn (talk) 22:48, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


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