Editing Talk:Delaware (section)

== Proposed merge of [[List of counties in Delaware]] into [[Delaware]], take two ==

I still don't feel this list should exist.

I thought there was a policy saying that lists have to have at least five items on them, but I can't for the life of me find it. [[WP:WIAFL]] dictates at least eight, but regardless of the fact that this isn't a featured list, I still feel three is too short for a list of anything.

Delaware has the fewest counties of any state in the union, with only three. At no point has anything changed about the counties -- they haven't merged, separated, etc. To have this list is like a band having a "List of members" sub-page when they've had the same three-person lineup since day one (such as [[Rascal Flatts]]), or a discography sub-page when they only released three singles (such as [[The Buffalo Club]]). It's why there's no [[List of shopping malls in Wyoming]] -- the state confirmably has only ever had three malls, so that redirects to [[List of shopping malls in the United States]] instead.

There's just no ''there'' there with this list, and I think this exists entirely because the other 49 states have one too. This is why I suggest a merge to [[Delaware]], or possibly [[List of United States counties and county equivalents]]. The last merge discussion had multiple partcipiants pulling in different directions, with most of the opponents to merging doing so only on the basis that the other 49 states do too. <span style="color:green">'''Ten Pound Hammer'''</span> • <sup>([[User talk:TenPoundHammer|What did I screw up now?]])</sup> 18:56, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

:{{u|TenPoundHammer}}, normally I would say the lack of opposition indicates [[WP:SILENT]] consensus for a bold merge, but there was opposition as recently as last year. This is going to need additional input, with hopefully at least some of it being from people uninvolved in the previous discussion. '''[[User:Thebiguglyalien|<span style="color:#0c4709">Thebiguglyalien</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Thebiguglyalien|<span style="color:#472c09">talk</span>]]) 21:29, 12 March 2026 (UTC)