Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List Of United States and Mexican States By Population
True, I can see where #STATS might apply here.  Still, the larger problem is in establishing the notability of the subject, and that's generally not possible in comparison articles-- in other words, no real way to say that a comparison of the states of any given "nation x and nation y" is more notable than any other.  There is always room for improvement on other existing articles by using sortable tables, which only became feasible in the last couple of years.  Hopefully, there will be a renaming of List of Mexican states by area which can be sorted by population and other factors.  And, I would add, there is a need to upgrade one of the U.S. states articles to that level.  We have a List of U.S. states and territories by population and a List of U.S. states and territories by area, but no table that lists both.  Oddly enough, the one article that you would think would list both area and population, List of U.S. states by population density, has ''neither'', which is kind of dense.  Finally, we actually have lists of all of the world's first tier subnational divisions, but all of them are of such size that they are difficult to use.  My feeling is that, although this article itself shouldn't be kept, you have some great skills in sorting data concisely, and that I encourage you to use those to improve existing pages
— User:Mandsford, 17:15, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
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