Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by English-speaking population
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was not a proposal to delete (it's a proposal to clean up). ➨ ЯEDVERS 10:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the article should be deleted - rather, it should be improved with more current data for individual countries, and provided with notes explaining the measurment or estimation methodology for each country or group of countries. Much of this has already been done for most of Europe.
Of course, ranking is a rather misleading procedure when the numbers for different countries come from different sources which may have used very different measurement procedures and have different levels of precision. Still, flawed as it is, the ranking is of interest to readers -- so I think we still should keep it, although with appropriate comments. Vmenkov 22:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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