Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Most endangered United States cities


 * 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. Mailer Diablo 19:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Most endangered United States cities
This article/list is essentially entirely unsourced and speculative POV and original research, and really could never be anything but POV and OR. The article currently uses three criteria to determine if a city is "endangered," thus warranting mention in the article: declining population, "most in danger of natural disaster," and "most outrageous crime rates." In my opinion, the first and last of these could be sourced then split into articles of their own (perhaps List of cities in the United States by population growth and List of cities in the United States by crime rate). However, this article is about "endangered" cities, which is a very vague concept. It cites no sources and is speculative in large part ("Enormous earthquake predicted within the next 100 years. City remains unprepared and buildings are not up to code. Towers as far away as Chicago expected to sway when this earthquake strikes"). Finally, note that New York and Washington, D.C. are conspicuously absent from the list. Though it seems that these two cities would be more likely to experience a terror attack than any other US cities, adding these to the list would be purely speculative. Delete. &middot; j&middot;e&middot;r&middot;s&middot;y&middot;k&middot;o  talk &middot; 16:26, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Inapt title and grouping the data together results in OR. AdamBiswanger1 16:32, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Blatant WP:NOR violation. --Porqin 17:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Landolitan 18:37, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Outrageous" is not a measurement to indicate crime. Were more serious, cited numbers to be used I might suggest it be merged into more relevant articles. SliceNYC 03:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


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