Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of most populous nations by 2025
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
— User:Black, 21:51, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)