Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of cities whose population has fallen under a million

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The result was delete. Stifle (talk) 13:53, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

List of cities whose population has fallen under a million[edit]

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Notability Darrelljon (talk) 10:58, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Being larger than a million then falling under a million is an arbitrary line and does not well depict what a shrinking city is. A very large city could shrink substantially but still be over a million, or one just under that could also shrink substantially, yet instead we have Perm which drifted above and below the line a couple times, half as many exceptions as actual examples, and failure to take metro areas into account. Reywas92^Talk 18:12, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It's a weird list for me, actually. Cities constantly change depending on many different factors, they shrink and then they grow again. The article looks a lot like WP:OR. However the number of pageviews for the past 30 days is over 750 - this makes me think - maybe a better option is to merge with Population decline, for example.Less Unless (talk) 22:14, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Purely user based synthesis. Riddhidev BISWAS (talk) 11:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Shrinking cities, perhaps? The threshold of a million is pretty arbitrary (as eg the Dublin example demonstrates) but a globally-oriented list of examples of substantial decline would seem to fit well there. Andrew Gray (talk) 14:03, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Basically an arbirarily chosen line.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:48, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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