Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Largest Armenian diaspora communities

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The result was keep. postdlf (talk) 18:08, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Largest Armenian diaspora communities

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This article is being nominated for deletion primarily because it is a mirror of a near-identical list on the Armenian Diaspora page. The Armenian Diaspora is spread across the globe, true, but do we truly need another page to display information that is readily available on the main page? And where do we stop? The list style is somewhat strange: if this is truly an article about the largest Armenian diaspora communities then should it limit itself to the top 5 or 10 cities? That seems arbitrary and suggests a list that is relative in terms. If so, then where's the cut off? Jerusalem is given as the city with the smallest of the largest Armenian communities, which suggests that 1,000 is the cut off. But why stop there and not 900 or 500? I think the answer is irrelevant. For me, it seems that the whole discussion is not necessary, that we have a perfectly good article which presents the same information in a more relevant context, and that it would be better if this article was either merged into the Armenian Diaspora page or deleted altogether.--Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 18:58, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2014 March 28. —cyberbot I ^Notify_Online 19:11, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As I already said on this article's talk page, the Armenian diaspora article is long enough and incorporating this table into that article will make it even longer. Plus, this is not the only such article. There's Jewish population by urban areas. Considering the fact that both Armenians and Jews are known for their diasporas, I don't see how this article is "needless". Contrary to the nominator's claim, this is not a "near-identical list". The last time I checked, countries are different from cities and regions. --Երևանցի ^talk 20:59, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Other stuff does exist and is besides the point. The Armenian Diaspora article is not long and actually can be trimmed since there are so many superfluous citations on pop. figures and other irrelevant data. The same information found here can easily be integrated onto that article.--Marshal Bagramyan (talk) 02:58, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Armenia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:29, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. This looks like a valid and useful list. In addition to the Jewish diaspora example, this is also pretty similar: List of U.S. cities with large African-American populations.--Pharos (talk) 04:45, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I agree that there would be a useful project to organize the "list of largest ___ population" lists, but that's no reason to delete this one. Perhaps the best solution is to make the naming more consistent for these sorts of lists. BennyHillbilly (talk) 06:26, 30 March 2014 (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.