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The result was keep. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:21, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Virginias[edit]

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Are these 2 states together an important division of the United States?? This article implies that they are simply because of their names. I mean, what if West Virginia were called Charleston State or something like that?? Would this still be an important division of the country?? Georgia guy (talk) 14:50, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. It's more than just the name, of course, since these two states were one state until the Civil War. And the GBooks, Gnews, and GScholar links above show a substantial number of works treating "The Virginias" as a unit for various purposes. On the other hand, there's only a very small number of incoming links from other articles, implying that the region is not mentioned, as such, in very many other Wikipedia articles. Not as obviously cohesive as The Dakotas and The Carolinas, but perhaps still worthy of a page. --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:35, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:11, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of West Virginia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:12, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 16:15, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I confess I wasn't really aware of "The Virginias" as a significant regional division, but I found a number of books defining it exactly that way. For example, The Virginias: A Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal, Golfing the Virginias, Hikes in the Virginias: Virginia, West Virginia and more.--Mojo Hand (talk) 02:46, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This seems to consist entirely of unreferenced original research on what a hypothetical unified Virginia would look like today. Maybe redirect to Virginia in the American Civil War, but there simply isn't much to say here. Some industries may bunch together Virginia and West Virginia due to their proximity. So what? --BDD (talk) 23:47, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The OR should be deleted, but that doesn't mean there's nothing else to say. — kwami (talk) 00:40, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The fact the article isn't as well developed as even the Dakotas is an argument it should be expanded, not deleted. If it turns out there really isn't much to say, there's no problem keeping it as a stub. — kwami (talk) 00:50, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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