Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Optimum population

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:32, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Optimum population

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Seems to be WP:OR for a neologism, connected to the human overpopulation challenges we have had over the last few years: of a very narrow set of concepts being pushed to argue for a particular political position. If we keep the concept, should be redirected to Sustainable population. Sadads (talk) 13:32, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Too confusing. Not clear what optimizing for (lead contradicts overview) or whether there is an optimum (for example maximising GDP per person as mentioned in overview - it might continually increase with population due to specialization and more networking and never reach a maximum) or whether optimizing a human population is possible. I doubt this article could be fixed. Chidgk1 (talk) 15:54, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Merge with sustainable population. Rustytrombone (talk) 17:27, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Rustytrombone there isn't really anything to merge, at most its a limited mention in sustainable population, Sadads (talk) 23:28, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Cant see that is heading either for a dictionary definition or a n essay.TheLongTone (talk) 14:12, 27 September 2022 (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.