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The result was delete. Sandstein 12:15, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of largest cities by area[edit]

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This list appears to have been copied from a single source, and it does not define its terms. It does not say whether the area is of the city proper, or the metropolitan area; or of land or land and water. In either case, the values do not correspond to the values given in the infoboxes of the cities listed: for instance, the infobox in New York City says the city proper is 1,214 km² and the metropolitan area is 34,490 km², but this list says the area is 8,683 km². The article does not say what population qualifies a city to be included in the list. Several Alaskan cities have rather large areas; for instance, Juneau has an area of 8,430.4 km². Should Juneau be included, or does it not qualify as a city since it only has 32,000 population? On the whole, I think the article is a mess and would be best deleted rather than laboriously cleaned up. — Eru·tuon 06:09, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:12, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:12, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: List of cities proper by population is also sortable by area, is much better sourced, and does a much better job of defining its terms. ubiquity (talk) 18:58, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, per ubiquity, this list is a poorly-sourced duplicate of an already existing list. As a sortable table with additional fields, "List of cities proper by population" adequately covers this subject, in greater depth, with a better-defined scope and superior sources. Antepenultimate (talk) 00:06, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete -- unreliable and original research. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:52, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - It needs significant cleanup, but AFD is not cleanup and it's clearly a notable topic that can't be properly covered just by the population article. As others have pointed out, a city like Juneau should be on this list, but wouldn't be on the big population list. So it's not just a duplication, or at least it shouldn't be. And per WP:POTENTIAL, it should be kept and cleaned up rather than deleted. Smartyllama (talk) 18:46, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP mentions that if content is not usable, then deletion is a better option. I don't think this list is usable, because the areas are unsourced and incorrect, and it's very difficult to determine if the cities listed are actually the "largest cities by area" in the whole world. Both the title and content are flawed. (Better titles for an article on this topic would be List of cities proper by area or List of metropolitan areas by area, in line with List of cities proper by population that ubiquity mentioned.) — Eru·tuon 19:27, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; absolutely useless content. Juneau definitely belongs on this type of list; it's a city, as is Hulunbuir, with an area greater than a quarter million square kilometres. The People's Republic of China has lots of area-massive cities; Prefecture-level city includes 192 cities with areas greater than 9,078 km2, the area of London as given on this list. Nyttend (talk) 00:55, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is a perfect candidate for WP:TNT. Lists require a well defined criterion and this one is ambiguous. Keeping this article violates WP:NOT#OR. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 10:35, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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