Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of telephone area name changes in the United Kingdom

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 12:15, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of telephone area name changes in the United Kingdom

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I can't see a way in which this list is encyclopedic. It seems to be a reformatting of consultation comments from 2003 over what names area codes in the UK should have - very much minutiae. The article is sourced, the information exists, but in my view its content doesn't seem notable - WP:IINFO. The "status 2012" column looks rather like WP:OR to me, where one editor has decided to assess whether names contain "errors" and what they "should be". I think this is content more suited for a specialist website, rather than Wikipedia. Flip Format (talk) 07:41, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Technology, Lists, and United Kingdom. Flip Format (talk) 07:41, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Note that there is no article titled Telephone area, suggesting that this is a list of name changes for something of purely internal use by telephone companies. It doesn't even appear that all of these telephone areas actually did have their names changed; I don't even know what column is supposed to represent what the name for each area is now. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:46, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This list seems to be based on primary source documents, and has all the problems that articles based on primary sources tend to have. Where are the secondary sources that say, for example, which entries are OK and which are not? Phil Bridger (talk) 21:55, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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