Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of all cities in the United States

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The result of the debate was delete. – ugen64 01:45, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

List of all cities in the United States

voting for deletion, reason: lists are not very useful

A gigantic article. Is it useful in any way?? I'm pretty sure someone who wants to search for an American city would probably want to:

Use a list of cities in the state the city is known to be in
Use a dis-ambiguation page if the city name is known but wants to know the state
Simply type it in in the URL

I suggest that this be deleted if no one can explain how this is a meaningful article. Georgia guy 21:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Delete. No apparent usefulness, plus the "article" (it's actually just a giant list) doesn't really set criteria as to what constitutes a city. Duplicates information in the various state articles. 23skidoo 22:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete. There are already articles for List of cities in {{{state}}} for each state, so this gargantuan article is unnecessary. Maybe it could be just re-written to link to the lists for each state, to establish an easy hierarchy or articles. --M412k 22:30, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete. 712 kilobytes. Wikipedia:Article size recommends splitting up these sorts of articles, but as M4 points out, that's been done. — Phil Welch 00:25, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete for the reasons above. Nestea 01:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete, Not needed. "List of cities in <state>" works much better. K1Bond007 03:43, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. An "A" for effort in creating this, but the Category:Cities in the United States makes this article redundant. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:40, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete — redundant, per Sjakkalle. — RJH 14:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete — redundant, per RJH. — phantombantam 10:37, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Entirely useless page that serves basically no benefit to a Wikipedia user that is trying to find the article of a specific United States community. Phoenix2 02:42, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete – Dewet 15:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Refactor into index of List of cities in {{{state}}} lists (ie what M412k said). Niteowlneils 15:31, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Impossible to maintain - I note at least two errors in the "Washington" section, but at 60+ seconds to load the page, I'm not about to try fixing it -- and redundant with Category:Cities in the United States and with the by-state lists. --Carnildo 22:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This article should be deleted because this is useless: The list is too large. See list of cities for a separate state for a full list. That's too much to maintain! --RonH 23:42, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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