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 redirect to Imperial County, California. Move already done JForget 01:45, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

El Centro metropolitan area (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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This page should be deleted because it is about a metropolitan area that is about Imperial County. Imperial County is the only county in that metropolitan area of less than 200,000 people. Two users a for a deletion/merge with the Imperial article and currently one user opposes it. This article can simply be merged into the ill Imperial County article. See Talk:El Centro metropolitan area#Necessity of article. House1090 (talk) 04:42, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. —Optigan13 (talk) 04:56, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/Redirect to Imperial County, California. There's no real reason to have a stand-alone article here when all it really does is list data that could easily fit in the county article. We already do this for many other statistical areas, and I don't see a convincing reason why this should be an excception. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 05:41, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Many statistical metropolitan areas have their own articles, even if they are contiguous with a county. See, for example, San Diego metropolitan area and Oxnard – Thousand Oaks – Ventura, California. --MelanieN (talk) 01:22, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete/Merge San Diego has a population exceeding 3 million people, that one is more important. As for Ventura County, that one should be merged too. House1090 (talk) 01:27, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep It is a key and important economic metropolitan area (the largest in terms of economic diversity in the state) of the Southern Border. It should stay for reference and consistency with the San Diego metropolitan area. In the case of San Diego being more important they are equally important in this sense. It makes for consistency with other metropolitan area articles for it to not be deleted. SoCal L.A. (talk) 05:22, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Imperial County, California. Both articles contain almost identical information, and the county article is more established and has more information. Alanraywiki (talk) 22:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 02:35, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Imperial County, as others have said. The official name should be prefered over an informal name when they both refer to the same thing. Side note: WP exists for the sake of its readers, not its subjects. (i.e. What's important is people who are looking for info on Imperial County, not Imperial County's feelings when it is compared to San Diego County.) Steve Dufour (talk) 15:47, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P.s. if San Diego County and the San Diego metropolitan area are the same thing merge them too. Steve Dufour (talk) 15:54, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are the same thing. SoCal L.A. (talk) 19:53, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Then AfD the "area" article and you have my "vote." :-) Steve Dufour (talk) 02:12, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy close with a recommendation to merge and redirect to [[Imperial County, California as per nom. This is not a good use of AfD. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:55, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done Any one needs the information that was in the article, you may go to my sandbox to get it (I did to help SoCal with the adding of information to the Imperial County Article). Thank you, House1090 (talk) 04:33, 17 February 2010 (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.