Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Latitude and Longitude of U.S. Cities

Latitude and Longitude of U.S. Cities

I hate to nominate it, considering the amount of work I put into it, but it must be done. The data were split from the article Latitude and Longitude of Cities, and put in a table, and had most of the links corrected. The problem with it is that all the data are wrong. If you randomly choose a link on it, and compare the lattitude and longitude between the list and the location's page, they aren't the same. The data in the individual articles have been more accurate in every instance I've checked. The numbers in location articles comes from the census bureau, whereas the numbers on Latitude and Longitude of U.S. Cities come from an unknown source. It would take way too much effort to correct the entire page, and it's not really a necessary page anyway. If it's deleted, the two redirects to it should be deleted as well. --Ben Brockert < 04:18, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Unless someone takes the time to correct every single entry (though, frankly, I don't think it's worth the time to do), this article has no value. -RidG (talk) 04:38, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. The first three I checked were right. Remember that the numbers on the list are in decimal degrees; the place articles give degrees, minutes, seconds, and then decimal degrees (for example, 33.50 on the list would be 33°30' in the article). I also strongly suspect that the LL figures on the list give locations of airports and the LL figures in the place articles give locations of city halls, based on a couple I looked at that I know. Antandrus 04:59, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • OK, I'm sure of it. They're LLs of airports. Try it: [1] (for Paso Robles, CA, chosen randomly). I'm going to note that on the list. Antandrus 05:12, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Do we need a list of airport coordinates? --—Ben Brockert (42) UE News 05:14, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
      • That might be a better name for the page. Antandrus 05:29, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Another randomly chosen one: Milford, Utah [2]. There's nothing there. --—Ben Brockert (42) UE News 05:17, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
      • Strange. I wonder if someone typed the coordinates manually (gasp) and we have typographical errors. Milford is off by half a degree of latitude (it should be 39.39 or 39.40). The ones I looked at in Alaska and California were right. Antandrus 05:29, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, of course. --—Ben Brockert (42) UE News 05:14, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. One of the few lists worth keeping. It's worth fixing; move to cleanup and pray for help. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:39, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, clean up or even rename as needed. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:20, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, I don't see a use for Latitude and Longitude of U.S. Airports, which is what this apparantly is. --fvw* 13:26, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)
• Keep. I could imagine people with GPS systems looking up this information. Make sure it's tagged until it's checked, and make it clear what notation system is used. Can't see a good reason to delete it all. Mgm|^(talk) 14:09, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
• keep Dunc|☺ 14:57, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Strong keep, and I am a bit perplexed by this nomination. GRider\^talk 18:30, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • You don't think a list of completely incorrect information is VfD material? When I listed it, I didn't know it was by airport. See above. --—Ben Brockert (42) UE News 20:52, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, check it if it needs checking, rename it if it needs renaming, but I see no reason to delete it. Rje 18:54, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. This can easily be cleaned up by copying the page offline and then editing it automatically from a source of accurate data, then updating the online copy. I'll put it on my todo list if this survives VfD. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:10, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I moved the page and de-listed it from VfD, and listed all of your keep votes as likely candidates to verify the data. --—Ben Brockert (42) UE News 20:52, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)