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The result was delete. --Core desat 05:10, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lower Mainland-Vancouver Island

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The subject doesn't appear to exist. I've lived in Vancouver for years and this is the first I've heard that these two metro areas are beginning to form into a single urban area. Frankly, it's an absurd claim, and certainly not notable or attributable to any credible source. bobanny 07:41, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete - Per nom. Erroneous implication for a non-existent/conjectured urban area, which, when one looks at the actual geographic masses in the title :"Vancouver Island" and "Lower Mainland", consists of an area considerably larger than Belgium. Most of the former is relatively sparsely settled, particularly on its northern half.--Keefer | Talk 07:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There's nothing wrong with such a large "urban area", the US Census bureau, for example, identifies a number of extremely large "metropolitan areas" for statistical reasons. Nevertheless, there is no indication that thsi particular area actually exists, and one could say it's original research but it looks more like just something someone made up. Arkyan  ^(talk) 16:00, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I've heard of the GVRD/CRD region spoken in the same breathe, usually in the context as a demographic or economic region, and every few years a bridge is proposed between the two. But I've never heard of Lower Mainland-Vancouver Island connection. I did a quick scan of books about such things but did not find this. --maclean 16:17, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per above arguments. There's no reported political push to blend the two areas, nor have I seen or heard any indication of public interest in that kind of combination. Tony Fox (arf!) 19:47, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete per nom. This is a fabricated metropolitan area: OR if I;ve ever seen it. Fishhead64 20:02, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete - this is nonsense. I live, and work, in both of these regions during the year. There is only a very elementary integration between them - by no sense of the term can they be considered a "single" metropolitan area. The Juan de Fuca Straight is quite a barrier to integration, after all. --Haemo 20:53, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I live in Vancouver, and never heard of or seen of this term. AQu01rius (User  Talk) 01:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy STRONG Delete with a Snowball There's Greater Vancouver, which is Lower mainland plus chilliwack, albesford, Pitt meadows, Langley, and maybe Mission. Vancouver island is never part of Lower Mainland or vice verse; not even the past, not now. George Leung 01:56, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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