The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete The consensus is that there is no precedent for a list of this nature, nor should there be one. Although it is well executed, the combinations of nations whose states and provinces could be compared to each other is endless. Mandsford 20:19, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ranked List of United States and Mexican States[edit]

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• Delete COMPLETELY NO USE AT ALL!!! Wilbysuffolk (talk) 17:45, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. This is clearly WP:OR. No precedent for presenting it. No reason to either. Mexico is not the US. Nor is Canada. Nor do we want to encourage similar OR lists with the departments of France, or the Prefectures of Japan, etc. It is at best, almanac stuff and probably not in there either. It is a made up comparison by editors. Nor are the states of Mexico, provinces of Canada, Prefectures of Japan, constituted identically to the US anyway. In other words, trying to "compare" apples and oranges. Student7 (talk) 14:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - I could have sworn thi AfD was already existing: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List Of United States and Mexican States By Population. Then I found List of United States and Mexican states by population is somehow a "different" article too. Perhaps one should find out all the duplications and put them in single AfD.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 15:48, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:22, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Mexico-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:22, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:22, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Make no sense putting them all in one list—Chris!_c/t 02:14, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete No encyclopedic reason for this to exist. fuzzy510 (talk) 06:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete No encyclopedic reason for this to exist. Random list. feydey (talk) 09:00, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all the following:

• List Of United States and Mexican States By Population;
• List of United States and Mexican states by population;
• Ranked List of United States and Mexican States;
• Ranked List of United States,Mexican States, Canada Provinces and Territories

per the reasons previously expressed above. Hwy43 (talk) 04:53, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• • I believe that these will have to be tagged individually. Most collective Afds fail. There is always sufficient people wanting to save one article in the list. This usually causes the entire Afd to fail. Student7 (talk) 13:07, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • If consensus at this AfD is to delete, I presume both the current location and the original location (redirect) of this article will be deleted. An AfD is underway for List Of United States and Mexican States By Population, but not yet for List of United States and Mexican states by population. Should an AfD be initiated at the latter, or should that wait until the outcome of the AfD at the former? Hwy43 (talk) 04:41, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete There is no sense in putting them all in one list. -- Joaquin008 ^(talk) 21:31, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - just a bunch of lists mushed together Yaksar (let's chat) 21:32, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Someone's arbitrary decision for contents of a list that has no use. --Oakshade (talk) 03:31, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.