Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Top 10 most populated places in each State
with List of largest cities of U.S. states and territories by population, by populating it with data for the 6th to 10th most populous cities, if it can be done in a way that doesn't bloat the table too much. Perhaps this could be done by making a "summary table" of the 2 or 3 largest cities in each state, then a full table below the summary table with the full top tens. The current table at that page only covers the top five per state. {{pb}} I strongly disagree with the nominator's rationale. |Deletion isn't cleanup, and if not for the existence of this semi-redundant pre-existing list as a merge topic, I'd be in favor of keeping the article. The fact that it's unsourced does not mean it should be deleted - city populations aren't a BLP or otherwise contentious topic where immediate sourcing is to be demanded, so the solution would be to |fix it yourself by adding sources, as well as cleaning up the formatting and moving it to a title more in line with Wikipedia's title conventions. The list is not "cruft", and to my eye it doesn't clearly meet ''any'' of the twelve characteristics listed at , which anyway is an essay, not a policy or guideline. The fact that List of largest cities of U.S. states and territories by population averages over 500 pageviews per day shows that there is in fact significant reader interest in the subject
— User:CJK09, 22:20, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NOTCLEANUP||WP:SOFIXIT||WP:LISTCRUFT (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)