Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barnsley/Dearne Valley built-up area

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 redirect‎ to List of urban areas in the United Kingdom. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:09, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Barnsley/Dearne Valley built-up area (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Non-notable census area. Sourcing, only two, to the primary Nomis/ONS, and a scrape site that doesn't appear to mention the term. The arguments are set out in detail at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alfreton/South Normanton Built-up area and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Royal Leamington Spa Built-up area, both of which concluded in Delete. Note that this is one of eight BUAs by the same author that are at AfD. The others being Burnley Built-up area / Birkenhead Built-up area / Accrington/Rossendale Built-up area / Lancaster/Morecambe Built-up area / Ipswich built-up area / Norwich built-up area / Rhyl/Prestatyn Built-up area. KJP1 (talk) 17:42, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. KJP1 (talk) 17:42, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:45, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• As with all of the rest, rationales already given at length in the two prior AFD discussions given in the nomination applying just as equally here, this is a concept that has never escaped its creator in what is now 12 years. We should be grateful that the article creator didn't do more string matching with that Freeman book from 1966, because the reality is that Freeman discusses "a string of large mining villages" that extends "from Rawmarsh into the Dearne Valley to Barnsley and beyond". So not support for a statistical polygon 45 years into the book's future, or even for the same area. And of course, as ever, the article to explain the obvious connection between mining villages on the South Yorkshire Coal Field (using, say, historian Melvyn Jones's South Yorkshire Mining Villages,ISBN 9781473880795) is South Yorkshire Coalfield. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 03:47, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to List of urban areas in the United Kingdom. Respectable search term, no reason to make it harder for readers to find information. Espresso Addict (talk) 09:46, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to the list at List of urban areas in the United Kingdom which includes it and explains the term. PamD 12:26, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.