Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southern Canada


 * 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. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:03, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Southern Canada

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Seems like original research. AutomaticStrikeout 01:39, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Quebec City–Windsor Corridor as a plausible redirect. The article is good faith and stating a good fact, but this belongs as a redirect to where the majority of Canada's population is (indeed, in the southern portion of the country). Feel free however to suggest a better RD target.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 02:14, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I've lived in "Southern Canada" a long, long, long, long time. We mostly divvy up the country into eastern and western, some central, with a bit of northern thrown in for variety, but we gots nothin' laik the Deep South, y'all. The south of Canada is just too diverse to lump together into one meaningful region. It's not synonymous with the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:03, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete As written, it's unreferenced. As written, it's not notable. As written, it's a series of tautologies. There is some underlying "fact" but it's a well known fact. The relevant information is already incorporated in Wikipedia at Canada, "Approximately 80 percent of Canadians live in urban areas concentrated in the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor, the BC Lower Mainland, and the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor in Alberta." It's also alluded to in other Wikipedia locations. As written, the title appears to border (haha) on a neologism. Beyond this article's current status, it is clearly not transformable to a keep, and it most certainly doesn't merit a redirect. FeatherPluma (talk) 14:40, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:55, 12 October 2012 (UTC)


 * While this article as written is true enough as it goes, none of it is particularly notable enough to require a separate article, rather than one or two sentences in an article about Canadian demographic patterns -- and there aren't (and can never be) any particularly strong reliable sources to support the notion that this concept of "Southern Canada" actually merits an encyclopedia article of its own. In actual fact, the term has virtually no real currency in Canadian sociological, political or demographic literature, except where it's necessary to contrast the dominant population centres with the Arctic territories -- and even then, all it really means is "the provinces" (a topic that's far too broad and diverse and just plain massive to really be meaningfully covered in one single article called "Southern Canada".) Delete. Bearcat (talk) 22:23, 15 October 2012 (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.