Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Territorial evolution of Colorado

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The result was delete. At the time, this is a rehashing of Territorial evolution of the United States with a couple of very brief references to Colorado, nothing of which establishes this fork as unique content. With that said, I believe there could be an article of this sort created. If someone would like this userfied to their space so they can develop it, let me know. As it stands, though, there's hardly anything here other than copied content. Tijuana Brass (talk) 08:31, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Territorial evolution of Colorado

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Redundant. The images duplicate maps from the article about Territorial evolution of the United States and don't deal specifically with Colorado. The information about who controlled Colorado and how Colorado was established is best covered at History of Colorado BOARshevik (talk) 14:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Actually, this could have been a decent article, since Colorado is part of what used to be the territories of Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and Utah, and it came from the Louisiana Purchase, the Texas Annexation and the Mexican War cessions of territory. The town of Breckenridge, Colorado falls right in the middle of the old borders. Even a simple 387 by 276 rectangle on the generic maps would have been helpful in making the point. But as Borshie notes, this is just a variation on an article about territorial evolution. Mandsford (talk) 14:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
• Merge : Merge into History of Colorado Shoessss |  Chat  14:58, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
• That's a heck a lot of illustrations to merge, isn't it? Mandsford (talk) 16:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
• I set up this article up to illustrate the peculiar territorial evolution of the Rocky Mountain region. This article is really too large to merge into another article. I still need to create four more maps to properly illustrate the changes in the region in the years 1859 through 1861. Buaidh (talk) 14:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep There's a lot of work in this page, and although it does duplicate information in other articles, it does so in a way that is much more focused. I think merging this into the Colorado History article would be a disservice to that article, while a delete would just be a shame. We'd just be back here a few weeks later trying to split this out of the Colorado History page to make it more approachable. --Mdwyer (talk) 21:14, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - If this is merged, I will eventually recreate the article, but with full information on the county borders. Personally, right now, it isn't much of an article; I could perhaps help by making more "zoomed in" maps. But most of the maps used have no specific change for the Colorado region. --Golbez (talk) 21:25, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep I think this is a very interesting potential article, especially with Golbez's mention of eventually putting in detail to the county level. I think this has distinct interest sepeate from an article on the history of the state. Moheroy (talk) 22:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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.