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The result was redirect to City region. Mz7 (talk) 06:31, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of European city regions[edit]

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Unsourced, incomplete and too ill-defined ever to be completed, overlaps with List of metropolitan areas in Europe#Polycentric metropolitan areas in the European Union Batternut (talk) 16:20, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The article seems to be similar with other Wikipedia articles and hence I also don't think it would be worthwhile to complete comprehending the fact that the article does not seem quite relevant for the topic. Denver| Thank you (talk) 16:36, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep I couldn't quickly find sources to back this up, but I do lean keep as city region is a defined term which has been the subject of academic research and a list of them might be a valid split. The biggest current problem with the article is a lack of sources, not its incompletion or definition. SportingFlyer talk 18:00, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect [was "Merge"], probably to City region, which already includes links to a number of these, and which could easily include a proper list (it is not a very long article, no need to split this out). This current list-article doesn't link to city region though, and there is no supporting source for any of the items being identified as "city regions", so the current list-article seems very weak. Development of a list back in the context of a defined term and some sources, etc., would be better. The entire content here could be copy-pasted to Talk:City region with a request that the items be considered for inclusion in that article. --Doncram (talk) 20:51, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to "Redirect" from "Merge" as it seems maybe there is no content that should be merged, given question below by User:Batternut about very few entries actually claiming to be city regions. Redirect is okay as an alternative to deletion which saves the original list in edit history, in case anyone wants to resurrect a few items later, if they can separately find relevant sources. It is helpful to know that part of this (the only portion with a source?) was copied from the city region article. There is no need for a list to be split out from the city region article, which is short. --Doncram (talk) 13:27, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment many entries in this list do not have articles, many are Eurodistricts (= transnational urban areas), some are just local enterprise partnerships, a very UK specific entity. Very few entries actually claim to be city regions - in the other cases it seems to be pure OR to call them city regions. Some may be pure fiction, eg the "Venetian Triangle". The definition was copied in 2015 from the city region article. Batternut (talk) 22:49, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect (as proposer), for the reasons given by Doncram (above). Batternut (talk) 10:59, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as proposed by Doncram. Article content is garbage and I doubt if anyone is ever going to improve it. No accepted definition of what actually qualifies to be included. Lyndaship (talk) 17:19, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to a relevant article that has "city region" in the title. City regions are city regions, not to be confused with anything else. wumbolo ^^^ 21:40, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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