Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of places known as the capital of the world
As stated by our guidelines: "The potential for creating lists is infinite". Hence, we have rules and Wikipedia content policies on stand-alone lists are clear on this. The claims to be capital of the world is not an appropriate topic for a list per . A claim like this is not something broadly accepted, and a list of those claims is all but neutral. So, I think the list format is not the good one for this topic because a list affirms things without giving to the readers the essential informations suchs as why this topic is controversial, why the history of a given city led a lot of people to consider it as a "capital" of something.... So under its list form, this article is pointless because it  will be subject to unexplained additions with doubtful sources. Hence, I really think this article will benefit from the advantages of starting from scratch and from being written in proper English, with complete sentences, in the form of a real article
— User:OysterMaster, 00:34, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SALAT (Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists)