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The result was keep. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:37, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of census divisions of Canada by population[edit]

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Census districts are usually non notable under WP:GEOLAND. Can’t find any evidence why this should be an exception. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Census Districts are (almost) all municipalities of some kind - either upper-tier municipalities (where it's a two-tieer system) or the single-tier municipalities. It could be renamed List of top-level municipal divisions of Canada by population, but that's not really a good name. Tompw (talk) 19:02, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:06, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. These are not census "districts" in the UK sense of the term (=tracts), which is what Cardiffbear88 is talking about. In Canada, "census divisions" is the overarching term for counties and county equivalents, such as regional municipalities and independent cities, not local enumeration subdivisions of a municipality — that is, the things here are not equivalent to the 48 subdivisions of Oxford that are mentioned in the UK section of census tract, they're equivalent to all of Oxfordshire (and Yorkshire and Kent and London). I'm certain that even Cardiffbear88 would never argue that Oxfordshire is non-notable — it's not that these are non-notable things, it's that Canada actually uses this term a little bit differently than how Cardiffbear interpreted it (the reason we use this umbrella term being that not all of them are actually called "counties", even if counties are still what they are functionally.) Bearcat (talk) 19:24, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep What Bearcat said. Geoland says "census tracts" are usually not notable, so this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the list contains, and you should withdraw it. These are equivalent to counties in the US, though in not all provinces do they align with local governments. Reywas92^Talk 20:09, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Bearcat and Reywas92.Epiphyllumlover (talk) 07:04, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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