Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cities with same latitude
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The result of the debate was inconclusive, but I have taken the liberty of redirecting the article to List of cities by latitude, for which there was some support. sjorford →•← 16:59, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I see no reason how can it be encyclopedic (Especially the title), even if it's some sort of trivia. - Mailer Diablo 18:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I was considering this one as well. I left it alone because I can imagine how a table of cities sorted by latitude could be interesting (we could even add Cities by latitude#35-40degrees links to city articles), and WP won't be able to dynamically generate one anytime soon. Too bad this tiny substub thingy is so indefensibly useless, I don't like the precedent its deletion is going to set. Rl 19:34, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Concur with Antandrus (Redirect to List of cities by latitude, which provides exactly what I wanted). Good find. Rl 08:00, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Trivia, non-encyclopedic. With all respect to Rl, I think deleting this article is a good precedent. If you need to know cities at the same latitude, lay a ruler across a Mercator projection. Cities being coincidentally at the same latitude may be moderately interesting, but I'm having trouble finding its encyclopedic value. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 22:39, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)- Redirect to List of cities by latitude, since that already has the information. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 21:37, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Josh Cherry 01:49, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, not encyclopaedic. Megan1967 01:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, trivial. DaveTheRed 04:03, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- delete, or alternatively, propose "pairs of cities which can have a straight line drawn through both of them" and "groups of three cities which can hvae a parabola drawn through their centres". Mozzerati 17:31, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
Delete. Probably the best way to handle this issue is to have a list of cities sorted by latitude. (I can make one pretty easily if anyone wants.) Antandrus 04:26, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)- Never mind; there already is one: so Redirect to List of cities by latitude. Antandrus 04:49, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Redirect to List of cities by latitude. Grue 16:55, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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