Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Constituent country
- 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. MBisanz talk 01:06, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
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Pure original research. Some sovereign states have federal or regionalized structures and sometimes, some people call those component parts "countries." This does not create a separate topic of "constituent countries" not better covered at e.g. Administrative division, Countries of the United Kingdom, etc. The list of "constituent countries" is arbitrary and it is not clear what objective criteria could ever be used to fix it. TiC (talk) 21:44, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
- Support delete. A list of subdivisions named "country" isn't informative, since "country" doesn't have a specific meaning. There are subdivisions recognised as comprising nationalities within states which are not referred to as "countries", such as Catalonia, but nonetheless share the same cultural characteristics that we see in a nation state / independent country. Also, Autonomous administrative division covers most entities listed here. Rob984 (talk) 00:18, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: Man, that article has a lot of problems of its own. It's a duplicate of List of autonomous areas by country, but encrufted with all manner of trivial and questionable inclusions, and pointlessly organized "by designation" even though this is a question of translation and in many cases arbitrarily chosen anyway. Something about this topic seems to attract original research and arbitrary, editor-devised classification schemes. TiC (talk) 20:26, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
- Yeah, I agree. I think there is room for an article on autonomous areas, but that article is bad. We also have an article named Constituent state which seems to also cover a made up concept. Rob984 (talk) 00:43, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
- Comment: Man, that article has a lot of problems of its own. It's a duplicate of List of autonomous areas by country, but encrufted with all manner of trivial and questionable inclusions, and pointlessly organized "by designation" even though this is a question of translation and in many cases arbitrarily chosen anyway. Something about this topic seems to attract original research and arbitrary, editor-devised classification schemes. TiC (talk) 20:26, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. I can't find any reliable sources for this terminology. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:42, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. shoy (reactions) 14:53, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. shoy (reactions) 14:53, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
- 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.