Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Table of all cities in the United States

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 08:14, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Table of all cities in the United States
I personally do not see a use for this article, nor do I think it is encyclopedic. It is also very, very long (it took me :30-:45 to load the page on a broadband connection). I nominated this article, and thus I abstain from voting. Sincerely, Short Verses 04:01, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. First, it is too big. Second, this is basically a text dump: it is essentially an abridged copy of a large data text file from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. I suggest we have a link to this data instead. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:22, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Pointless. --Xcali 04:44, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, per Zzyzx11 - too big, and we can link to it; also repetitive of the even more gargantuan List of all cities in the United States, which is itself repetitive of listings by individual states. -- BD2412 talk 04:45, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Delete, we already have List of all cities in the United States (which could be tabelized itself - I don't dare checking for fear of a browser crash) and we could link to the cencus data. "Table of..." isn't standard naming policy either. Mgm|(talk) 09:15, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I Vote to KEEP it! Patricknoddy 8:42 June 9, 2005 (EDT)
 * Keep and subdivide. Kappa 13:02, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete: 1. Duplicate material. 2. Unwieldly and therefore unusable.  3. Unnecessary even if it weren't duplicate. Geogre 14:10, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Redundant. Unwieldy (271k--anything over 90k gets impractical even on 'modern' browsers). Not a table--format is bullet-list line items as "SN:Cityname", which I can't think of any practical use for. (And, at 721k, incomplete, List of all cities in the United States needs to be broken up, as well.) In managable chunks, I suppose Wikisource might be better for List of all cities in the United States, but this doesn't seem useful anywhere. Niteowlneils 15:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Update. I didn't notice List of all cities in the United States is also on VFD. Suggest refactor List of all cities in the United States into an index of the List of cities in  lists, and make this redir to the new index at List of all cities in the United States. Niteowlneils 15:33, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete the misnamed and duplicative and oversize and incomplete table, refactor the list as suggested by Niteowlneils. Barno 19:36, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Redundant. --Carnildo 21:55, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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