Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Primary statistical area


 * 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 redirect to Statistical area (United States). I am not seeing a lot material to merge. But the page data is being preserved so anyone who wants to do a merge is free to do so. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:24, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Primary statistical area

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The concept of a "primary statistical area" appears to be a Wikipedia construct, and doesn't exist in other sources. There have been discussions at Talk:List of primary statistical areas of the United States about the appropriateness of these pages going back over a decade, but they've never been discussed at AFD, as far as I can tell. The list is a combination of combined statistical areas, metropolitan statistical areas, and micropolitan statistical areas. These statistical areas are defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, which says that "Because Combined Statistical Areas represent groupings of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (in any combination), they should not be ranked or compared with individual Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas." Delete as WP:OR. - Eureka Lott 05:11, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:26, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Primary statistical areas are essential for showing a full comparative list of population centers across the United States of America. Combined Statistical area listings, can be useful, but do not include certain major metro areas such as Phoenix that are not part of a CSA. They also do not include many smaller sized metro and micro areas. Simple metro area rankings, can also be useful, but they do not show the true extent of population centers in some cases such as comparing San Francisco to Houston in 2019. A full list of primary statistical areas is important for an accurate depiction, and ranking of all United States population areas with 10000 or more people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:4:803:0:0:0:8C (talk) 20:52, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~SS49~   {talk}  02:43, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Agree with comment from 24 February 2019. When a CSA exists for an area, CSA often is the closest match to what is used in local parlance to describe the entire metro area. For example, the "Tri State Area" is often used to describe counties in NY, NJ, and CT that are closely tied to NYC, and while the CT counties are included in the CSA, they are not included in the NYC MSA, so the CSA most closely matches what is actually used by people to describe the metro area. However, as the previous commenter noted, some metro areas do not have a CSA (e.g., Phoenix). The existing article is a very logical way to compile CSA and MSA lists to be able to compare the relative sizes of different metro areas as they are frequently used in parlance. 2 March 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.66.88 (talk) 16:31, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 23:17, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:42, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 08:42, 7 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Merge (selective - what is sourced and isn't there) to Statistical area (United States). I do see use of the term, so it is a plausible redirect. I don't quite see a need for a separate article. Icewhiz (talk) 08:47, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Statistical area (United States) which already duplicates substantially all of the content in this page.  Uninvited Company 17:13, 12 March 2019 (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.