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At least for Japan, there isn't a "list of towns in Region X", which this is. They have developed articles about the regions, and the towns are in the national list. Alberta is a much bigger area than North Western Province. Lukeno94(tell Luke off here) 12:22, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Would you prefer all the towns of Sri Lanka on one list?
I see no reason why it should be any different to that Japanese article you linked to, especially as Sri Lanka is far smaller. Besides, if the town doesn't yet have an article, does it really need to feature? And going back to your earlier argument about how these articles will be made soon... doesn't that fail WP:CRYSTAL (albeit in an unusual way)? Lukeno94(tell Luke off here) 12:41, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well Sri Lanka and Japan have different types of subdivisions, therefore a town in Sri Lanka may not be equivalent to a town in Japan. This and the other article you nominated are not finished, there are more towns to add to this list therefore this and the other list article is still under construction. Here is a finished one to look at: List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka. Now imagine that many articles 9 times (as per number of provinces) on one single page...that would be impractical and contrary to wiki policy, plus dividing towns per province as opposed to nation just makes more sense. Maybe this is a better comparison see Communes of France and Lists of communes of France. Also I dont think it fails WP:CRYSTAL, in fact red links encourage editors to create that article. WP:RED--Blackknight12 (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Lukeno94, WP:CRYSTAL is about predicting future events in the world, not about predicting future content in Wikipedia. If a town merits an article, we naturally expect that it will eventually be written about (hopefully before the WP:DEADLINE by which Wikipedia has to be finished). Regardless, a list of towns in a given locale has inherent informational value (particularly if it's annotated with some basic facts about the town), and helps fulfill our function as a gazetteer. postdlf (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep a proper list - where else are the names of the villages and that they politically belong to this province captured? Nowhere, that's why it's not useless contrary to the nom's assertion. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:06, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural KeepWP:USELESS; nomination that fails to advance a policy based argument. Mkdwtalk 09:05, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per my comments and everyone else's above; meritless deletion nomination. postdlf (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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