Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Largest cities in the Southern Border

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Keep, the Southern Border is a major region of Southern California, like the Greater Los Angeles Area or the Inland Empire. It is the largest, in terms of economic diversity, region of the State of California. So i created a list of it's largest cities. Hardly anything like Aardvarks by the name of George with brown hair living in Windy County, Oklahoma that resemble anteaters. SoCal L.A. (talk) 00:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep If this gets deleted so should Largest cities in Southern California.House1090 (talk) 00:51, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:LIST. It has a clearly defined scope ("the 25 largest cities in the Southern Border by population"), it's verifiable, it's closely related to an article (Southern Border), and it's sourced and well presented. - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:04, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This isn't at all a violation of our list standards, since it defines the number of cities and relies on an official definition of Southern Border. By the way, there is no Windy County, Oklahoma. Nyttend (talk) 05:19, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Gimme a break, this already part of Southern Border and there's no need for its own special article. "Southern Border" sounds really impressive, and the article's author assumes that everybody knows what it is, but this is basically "Largest cities in San Diego County and Imperial County, California". And if you want to know what the largest cities are in San Diego County and Imperial County, California, there's an article called "Southern Border" that includes that information. Somebody thoughtfully wrote that information-- so that you and I don't have to. Mandsford (talk) 15:36, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CommentJust pointing out that i wrote both articles :). SoCal L.A. (talk) 22:33, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Southern Border and any subsidiary articles like this should be moved to less ambiguous titles like Southern Border (California). It may surprise some editors, but numerous other states and nations also have southern borders. It is a bit arrogant to assume that the southern border of one U.S. state is so well known as such that no disambiguating information is needed. I am a U.S. resident and I have been to said southern border of California, but have never heard the term used in such a linguistic monopoly. A Google Book search shows no dominance of California in use of the term "Southern Border" over the borders of other states and countries. Edison (talk) 16:47, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weak merge to Southern Border, rename that article to Southern Border (California). I concur with Edison about the rename, and like Mandsford I am unclear about the need for this separate list article. Why not just replace the list of cities now included at Southern Border with this nicer-looking, and slightly more detailed, list? I am open to re-evaluating my opinion if someone will articulate a good reason for a separate article for the list. --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:06, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:22, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:22, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]