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List of solar eclipses visible from the United States

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List of solar eclipses visible from the United States (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This list is incomplete to the point of being misleading. Taking the Charlotte, NC section as an example: it lists only 14 of the 440 solar eclipses visible between the dates selected 1001-2251 (https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JSEX/JSEX-USA.html). This list can never be made complete, nor should it. To accurately list solar eclipses from the 90 cities on the list would require ~50k bullets. That's excessive.

Suggest deleting this, and starting over with a more focused view, and shorter time period (e.g. 1900-2100). A section on the most notable eclipses such as those with the longest duration, coast-to-coast paths, etc. Rather than have 90 sections for individual cities, have sections for each state and list only eclipses where path passes through that state. MadeYourReadThis (talk) 17:02, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Astronomy, Lists, and United States of America. Skynxnex (talk) 17:37, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep – Per Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup. If necessary, editors can use WP:TNT to rewrite the article. Up the Walls (talk) 23:21, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
• Delete as egregious eclipse cruft. And if you like, per WP:NOTDB and as a WP:CROSSCAT. Does it matter if an eclipse 1000 years ago was visible within a current geopolitical boundary? Or one 1000 years in the future? Why are these broken down by city? Stuff like this can be automatically generated from a database (and indeed appears to have been for this article), and doing so city-by-city is completely pointless and serves no purpose. What's here is unsalvageable, so appeals to clean up are inadequate as well. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 04:19, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

  The topic of when an eclipse path might pass through your city is interesting enough, even so far in the past or future, but the scope here is just too broad to be covered to any level of usefulness (to your point). This is an unfixable article. MadeYourReadThis (talk) 17:42, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NLIST. Eclipses visible by city is a weird idea, plus the cities (and nation) in question didn't even exist at the time of many of them. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

• Delete as city choices seem to be arbitrary, especially with some cities listed being close to each other (relatively speaking at least), and some states left out entirely. The timeframe also seems to be arbitrary, with no real reason for it. Sadustu Tau (talk) 10:28, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

• Delete as stated by the nominator, any list of eclipses without established bounds cannot possibly be complete. This largely seems to be cruft. ArkHyena (talk) 03:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

• Keep bc Wikipedia is not a directory. This doesn't promise to be an index of every eclipse. It's an incomplete list. The solution is editorial cleanup, not deletion. jengod (talk) 17:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

  That is why they have the major edit template. Someone should rewrite the article using that template rather than deleting it and recreating it. 2601:5C5:4201:68B0:7CD6:EBEE:595E:F8EC (talk) 08:13, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

The list itself is only meant for total and annular eclipses because if we were to include every single partial eclipse, we’d be listing hundreds of eclipses. But I do think listing them from 1000 to 2251 is a bit excessive. Maybe 1901-2100 might be a bit better and more reasonable. 2601:5C5:4201:68B0:7CD6:EBEE:595E:F8EC (talk) 17:42, 12 March 2024 (UTC)