Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of official languages by GDP per capita
as it strongly appears to be Wikipedia:Listcruft with multiple ways in which it is untenable for any encyclopedic use.  Not only are there not eliable sources that the formula is useful for anything, but it's unlikely that the criteria is even logical; this would have become clear if the table had been based on actual official languages, instead of some editor's opinion of what ''should'' be the official languages.  Take, for example, the Swedish language: if I remember correctly, Sweden is a full official language in two countries, Sweden and Finland.  Only 5% of Finland speaks Swedish as their mother tongue, but it's official in 100% (see, for example, Mandatory Swedish).  The worthlessness of ranking Swedish-language GDP using 100% of Finland's population is clear, and would have been obvious if only the table followed its own criteria instead of just assuming that Swedish must not really official anywhere but Sweden.  This same problem recurs throughout the table, and will continue to be a problem because co-official languages are based on the domestic political situation, not objective numeric proportions, and in many cases a country does not even have a specific single list of languages.  Even if the article criteria were changed (defeating the whole point of the article name), and even if a country's population numbers separated by mother tongue were available for some countries, it still remains that GDP reliably separated domestically by mother tongue is almost never available.  Furthermore, in contrast to Finland, many countries, such as China, go out of their way to minimize acknowledgement of certain widespread languages, so not only are their official languages not a proportional reflection of the mother tongues used, but the language statistics for each of those countries are often non-neutral as well, so neither the official language method nor the proportional method yields anything other than mathematical entertainment, and this affects even several countries with large populations, making accurate ranking impossible even if it would have been useful in the first place
— User:Closeapple, 18:20, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:R (Wikipedia:Redirect)