Deletion of List of most populous nations by 2025

Comment: This list is not viable as a general topic, for several reasons. (1) It presents a single estimate (the UNFPA estimate) as ''the'' estimate. (2) It limits itself to being a list of "most populous" countries and thereby forces itself to use an arbitrary cutoff; there is no reason to choose the "top 20" instead of the "top 10", "top 25", or "top 42". (3) It uses the term "nation" interchangeably with "country", which is definitely a mistake. (4) The choice of 2025 seems, at first glance, to be entirely arbitrary; in reality, it is dictated by the source, but it is something we should avoid for a general topic list. While all of these problems could be fixed by renaming to List of United Nations Population Fund estimates of country populations in 2025 and expanding the list to include estimates for all countries, such a list would go against the principle that #IINFO|Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: per . In 1989, who'd have thought that the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and FR Yugoslavia wouldn't exist in 2009? Not to mention the reunifications experienced by both Germany and Yemen? So what's to say that the countries that exist now will be around in 2025
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL)

Comment: per . These are reliably sourced predictions, not unverifiable speculation. Speculation and extrapolation are original research when it is done by Wikipedia editors, not when it is done by |reliable sources. The arguments given to delete would also easily apply to Ultimate fate of the universe, an article which is clearly encyclopedic, but which is also certainly documenting speculation, and there is clearly not agreement among all sources. But to demonstrate disagreement with ''these'' population figures, you need another reliable source giving conflicting information, which if found should be included in the article, per . The figures given here ''are'' taken seriously by http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DF103CF933A05757C0A964958260 other http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HT&p_theme=ht&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFED6F1AEC5559&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D reliable http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20766408.html sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL||WP:RS||WP:NPOV)

Comment: with World population estimates. The article by itself violates  and does not indicate any reason as to why there is any significance to population in 2025
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL)