Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The wealthiest Arab cities

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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The wealthiest Arab cities

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• Neutral This is a well-researched article, but there's already an article called Wealthiest cities in the Middle East. To the extent that this is new, the info should go there, with a redirect from Arab world to the Middle East article. Besides Israel, I'm not sure what other non-Arab areas there are in the Middle East. Mandsford 15:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Turkey and Iran are sometimes considered Middle Eastern. Neither are Arab. --Charlene 17:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Yup, and Kurdistan. Stammer 18:57, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
      • What makes a city arab? Why is such a distinction necessary? -- Cat ^chi? 19:06, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment This article should be cleaned up, expanded, and called something different. Otherwise this article contains useful and helpful information. -Vcelloho 15:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and clean up. As per comment.--Edtropolis 16:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: for the header information Ammar (^Talk - ^{Don't Talk}) 17:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: i just found this page :(The_wealthiest_countries_in_the_Middle_East) , do you think it should be nominated for deletion for the same reasons ? Ammar (^Talk - ^{Don't Talk}) 17:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, "wealthiest" is a subjective term. According to who? Why is 56BN$ a cutoff point? Also why "arabic", "middle eastern" would be better. At the very least, rename to List of wealthy Arabic cities or something along the line. -- Cat ^chi? 19:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Not encyclopedic any more than The wealthiest Spanish speaking cities, The wealthiest cities in countries starting with "C", or The wealthiest cities with a good Irish pub. Also, FWIW: Arabic is a language and is used sparingly as an adjective usually for linguistic (Arabic script) and mathematical (Arabic numerals) concepts; Arab is the normal adjective for the people, Arabian for a geography. An Arab city would mean a city inhabited by Arabs, whether it was in "Arabia" or not - which gets us to the lovely WP policies of race/ethnicity, etc. which don't tell us what percentage of the city's population has to be Arab but if you're ancestry is 1/4 Irish and you're living in Britain then you get to be in Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain, so perhaps a 25% Arab population makes the city an Arab city; an Arabian city would mean a city in the region Arabia (variously defined) whether inhabited by Arabs or by Fooians. As pointed out above, the Middle East today is not synonymous with Arab (e.g., Turkey, Iran, Israel, Kurdistan, and even sometimes Cyprus). Carlossuarez46 19:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above.--Svetovid 20:40, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Carlossuarez46. Pavel Vozenilek 23:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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.