Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Historic Celtic City Populations

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The result was delete. Mz7 (talk) 05:16, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Historic Celtic City Populations[edit]

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"Celtic cities" and "(early) modern history" is an intersection of two unrelated topics, as these cities have become populated with a lot of non-Celtic people. (Note that we do have ancient Celtic cities though.) I would suggest to move the population data to the separate city articles, if not already there. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:30, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:32, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:32, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per WP:NOTSTATS. If there was academic material discussing the growth of "Celtic cities" (still a questionable topic because of bracketing) then I might see the point in this. This article, however, is just a listing of census data and all reliant on one source. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:40, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
DElete (1) it is largely based on works by one author. (2) "Celtic cities" is a topic of questionable validity, since it is based on perceived linguistic affinity. It is not accurate to describe Rennes as Celtic today as Breton is an extinct language; nor Edinburgh, since its language is Scots (a close relative of English), not Gaelic. (3) The basis of estimates is not set out, only cited from the books of that one author. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:56, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - numbers don't match those in the source (for instance, I did a spot check of the Glasgow source), Some numbers are "interpolated or extrapolated" (that is, original research), source isn't reliable, selection of cities is not well defined, time period is arbitrary, and so on. WP:TNT at best. Smmurphy^(Talk) 16:51, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Guliolopez (talk) 01:41, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Per nom, WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:OR. The inclusion criteria seems more than a little indiscriminate (why these cities? and not others in Ireland or Scotland or elsewhere?). And what is a "celtic city" anyway? (The term itself would seem to be OR). An indiscriminate grouping of indiscriminate stats. Guliolopez (talk) 01:41, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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