Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pittsburgh Tri-State


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:10, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Pittsburgh Tri-State

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See the discussions of the main page. This article is based on coverage regions of federal agencies, which does not call for these extrapolations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Domanator (talk • contribs) 2010/10/08 14:52:44
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 09:45, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:11, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Pittsburgh metropolitan area - This information can be mentioned there in a section of the article.  Dough 48  72  15:35, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Original research at its worst. From what I can tell by the sources cited, the idea that the entire State of West Virginia is South Pittsburgh was inferred from the fact that FBI's "Pittsburgh Division" has jurisdiction over WV.  .  Pittsburgh is in the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, but that doesn't make it part of Greater Cleveland.  No redirect, because there's no indication that anyone uses the phrase "Pittsburgh Tri-State" to refer to the metro area.  Mandsford 20:00, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * This site refers to the Pittsburgh tri-state consisting of PA, OH, and WV.  Dough 48  72  20:16, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * But I didn't see in that link where the business used the phrase "Pittsburgh Tri-State" (and I didn't see that supposedly notable phrase in any of the links in the article either, other than the title of the page, which is the author's creation). Lots of businesses refer to themselves as "tri-state" if they happen to be located near two other states and like to sound as if they're serving the entire population of three states.  It ranges from places like Cincinnati, Chicago, Memphis, etc. to smaller locations like Middlesboro, Kentucky and Belle Fourche, South Dakota.  Mandsford 01:19, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * From the link :"Tri-State Horse Business Directory". A Google Search turned up results that seem to be mostly from businesses. This sense of using the term "tri-state area" is similar to what is seen in other cities such as Philadelphia and New York City. I know the latter has an article, Tri-State Region, that mentions the concept and seems redundant to New York metropolitan area.  Dough 48  72  02:56, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


 * You've got a point on the phrase being more common that I had thought, since I see from a similar search that "Pittsburgh Tri-State" in quotes gets a lot of mention and might, arguably, be a search term, but the central premise of the article-- that the tri-state includes all of West Virginia-- is silly.  I'll withdraw my delete, but as Catalyst points out, the definition of the metro area isn't a Tri-State at all.  I'm more concerned about New Yorkers asserting priority over the use of "tri-state".  Mandsford 15:32, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete As stated above, this is original research, and putting all of West Virginia and Akron, Ohio (which is greater Cleveland if anything) in the Pittsburgh area is silly. The various "Pittsburgh divisions" mentioned in the article are intentionally broad; looking at these divisions in other cities, the FBI's Salt Lake City Division covers three whole states, and Denver TV stations (like FSN Rocky Mountain) cover up to eight. No redirect, since the actual Pittsburgh metropolitan area is entirely within one state. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 20:31, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete original research / pn. Admrboltz (talk) 03:04, 27 October 2010 (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.