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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:57, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of city name changes[edit]

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WP:SALAT: this is an infinitely expandable list, there have been an uncountable number of city name changes in history and there will always be more happening in the future. Wikipedia is not a database for listing every city name change that has ever happened. SilverStar54 (talk) 16:49, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Lists. SilverStar54 (talk) 16:49, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The list should be trimmed to exclude those with minor orthographical changes (many of those in Indonesia for example) but this is a valid list as well as navigation page since many countries have their lists split into subpages. I don't think this is "infinitely expandable" at all, though you're welcome propose narrower inclusion criteria. There is an old discussion at Talk:List_of_city_name_changes#Scope_of_this_page that removed natural evolution of names and proposed having only deliberate changes to wholly new names. Even including other types listed this is by no means indiscriminate or inappropriate for Wikipedia. Reywas92^Talk 17:01, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. If too in depth, erect rails. Hyperbolick (talk) 18:32, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What does that mean? —Tamfang (talk) 02:01, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Reywas92, and by not being completely convinced WP:SALAT applies as this can easily be broken out further. SportingFlyer T·C 19:27, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Name changes are very notable events that can happen to a major city. Possibly a better inclusion criteria is required to improve the article. Ajf773 (talk) 21:25, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep No valid reason for deletion given. The size of the list is not a reason to delete it. Any list that grow too large, just split off into different list. Dream Focus 03:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above, if some sections get too long then they can be split off into sub-lists, like for many sections now. Dank Jae 08:12, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is a notable topic and it actually prevents editors from creating various content forks. Georgethedragonslayer (talk) 14:55, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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