Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extreme communities of Canada

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The result was keep. Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:59, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Extreme communities of Canada[edit]

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Sad because WP:ILIKEIT, but nominating because WP:OR and WP:LISTCRUFT. Content is almost entirely unsourced - it looks like someone just looked on a map and made a list of what seemed like the farthest town in each direction. Has spent the last decade tagged for original research with no improvements.

There's also a philosophical content question of what a "community" is (a municipality? a population centre? an inhabited place? a town above a certain size? a ghost town? etc) that makes sourcing this basically impossible. Madg2011 (talk) 06:23, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 06:30, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 06:30, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 06:30, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is a definition to what constitutes a community. See Remote and isolated community, and the corresponding legal definitions. Prince of Thieves (talk) 12:58, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Even if there is a legal definition of "community," the article doesn't use it. For example, two uninhabited places are explicitly listed, and several "communities" are redlinked which suggest they're either uninhabited or close to it. For NL, it lists a neighbourhood of a city as the westernmost community. Quebec's listed southernmost communities are rural municipalities that abut the US border - AB, SK, and MB all have similar rural municipalities against the border, but their "southernmost communities" are a village, a border post, and an urban area of a rural municipality, respectively.

Anyways, that's a fixable content issue, and not really the crux of my deletion argument. Original Research is the bigger issue. Madg2011 (talk) 17:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Soft Keep if Prince of Thieves is correct: if this list has a legal definition, it's less WP:LISTCRUFT than it seems as it's not an indiscriminate list; perhaps it could be merged into the parent article? SportingFlyer talk 02:54, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Legitimate almanac-style content. Carrite (talk) 12:32, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Carrite. --Doncram (talk) 02:05, 9 March 2018 (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.