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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 19:13, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Number of urban areas by country
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This entire article is dedicated to a single source. More verification is not possible because the entire premise of the article is based on what Demographia deems important.
The single source is a private company that appears to be the output of a single person. There's no evidence of peer review, or any kind of editorial oversight that makes a good secondary source. This is basically using wikipedia as a blog. Sativa Inflorescence ( talk) 18:58, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Lists. Shellwood ( talk) 18:59, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Appears to be original research. Ajf773 ( talk) 09:26, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
- Delete - I like the idea of this page, but it's entirely based on what looks like a single person's personal website?
[1] doesn't instill confidence in it's authenticity. If there was an alternative source like the UN then I would say keep. In fact, I would say demographia shouldn't be used on wikipedia at all, but I don't know how to ask that.
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talk) 00:48, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree with you on that, and it's unfortunately proliferated throughout wikipedia. For example, the same Demographia source is cited in the lede for New York City (and there's currently a talk page discussion about whether or not to remove that). Sativa Inflorescence ( talk) 14:41, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Agreed, this does look like original research and unreliable. Equine-man ( talk) 07:45, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
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