Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of U.S. communities with African American majority populations

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The result was keep.--Fuhghettaboutit 03:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of U.S. communities with African American majority populations[edit]

Article has an arbitrary (50%) inclusion criteria and has a very confusing flow. Article would be better of being an image color coding ethnic composition based on data like this: Image:New 2000 black percent.gif. -- Cat ^chi? 16:57, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Weak keep. It's somewhat interesting, but I'm not sure it meets WP:LIST. It's certainly sourcable.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 19:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. The criterion looks fine to me. Majority means over 50%, last time I looked. Clarityfiend 20:25, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep Unlike the article about U.S. communities with non-Hispanic Caucasian majorities, or whatever it was called, this one is sourced straight from the 2000 United States Census. Would that all of our articles were that well sourced. I agree that 50 percent isn't arbitrary, since that's the definition of a majority. Given that African Americans make up only 12.3 percent of the U.S.A.'s population, the fact that a municipality has a 50% black majority is significant. Finally, it's an illustration of the distribution of race between a city and the neighboring towns. Before Ray Nagin said it about New Orleans, our nation's capital used to be cynically described as "the chocolate city with the vanilla suburbs", and that can be said about many of the largest U.S. cities. Mandsford 20:52, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, topic long covered by reliable sources, including a TIME cover story among countless other publications. While an image could easily enhance the article, and I would prefer a criterion such as "municipalities" or "metropolitan statistical areas", there is clear notability. --Dhartung | Talk 21:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, arbitrary inclusion criteria are acceptable for lists. 50% doesn't seem particulary arbitrary in any case. Kappa 22:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I know WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS isn't a valid argument, but List of U.S. communities with caucasian majority populations is also nominated for deletion. Dbromage [Talk] 00:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - The difference is that whites as described by that article make up the majority of the US population, whereas blacks are less than 13%.Brusegadi 01:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Sourced and meets the guidelines in WP:LIST. —C.Fred (talk) 00:43, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per C.Fred. --Acntx 10:18, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Notability established by reliable sources, as noted above. Tarc 17:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Dhartung (aha! I knew Richmond was on this list, I just didn't have proof until now -- RVA ftw!) spazure (contribs) 08:21, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete When exactly did "more than half" become an "arbitrary" interpretation of "majority"? Beorhtric 16:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a definition of "majority" other than "the subset of a group that is more than half of the entire group" that only you are privy to? Tarc 15:38, 23 August 2007 (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.