Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of communities in Alaska

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Merge in a yet-to-be-determined manner. Consensus that a merger of some sort is required. This can be discussed separately. Sandstein 08:51, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Appears to be redundant with List of places in Alaska Mattximus (talk) 16:08, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:41, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alaska-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:41, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep until someone is willing to undertake a merge. The article contains a lot of information that is not in List of places in Alaska, such as coordinates. Thus, the page cannot be considered entirely redundant. A merge is going to be a lot of work because of the big differences in formatting of the two lists. SpinningSpark 00:20, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• There are only coordinates for 2 or 3 of the hundred plus places, everything else in the table is blank. In fact the whole page is almost an empty table. Mattximus (talk) 13:11, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• 2 or 3? You can't count. SpinningSpark 15:53, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• If you want accuracy, the table is missing 94.6% of the coordinates, and they were barely touched since 2008, or just over 10 years ago. This page is completely useless. Mattximus (talk) 20:15, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, but List of places in Alaska needs to be merged. There's no reason for there to be separate lists for each letter when they'd fit in a single long list or just a few by letter range. Reywas92^Talk 20:44, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• The best thing to do would be to do like all other states and have two lists, one for incorporated places (List of cities in Alaska), and one for census-designated places (which are unincorporated). I've worked hard on the first one, but I don't have time for the second at the moment. That would be perfect since it should cover every "place". Right now we have 4 overlapping articles... Mattximus (talk) 21:32, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• A merge might be desirable, but I agree with User: Spinningspark that a merge would be difficult because of the formatting differences between List of places in Alaska and List of communities in Alaska. Vorbee (talk) 07:54, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Just to be clear, a merge where? List of places in Alaska and List of communities in Alaska can both be merged into List of cities in Alaska and List of census-designated places in Alaska, there is no reason to have 4 overlapping lists. Mattximus (talk) 12:32, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• If you had mentioned those two originally, perhaps the keep vote may not have been that way. I don't think coordinates is vital to the table when it's in each place's article, and a BOLD redirect to those from both this communities list and the 26 places pages shouldn't be controversial, or can be done outside of AFD. WP's not a gazetteer so I don't see why we need a list (or a set of them by letter) that combines cities, villages, naval stations, national monuments, and Regional Educational Attendance Areas. Reywas92^Talk 20:03, 1 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• On the contrary, Wikipedia is a gazetteer, though that doesn't really change the discussion much. ansh666 21:25, 1 July 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.