Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1901 Census of the North West Frontier Province


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The result was redirect to Census in Pakistan. (non-admin closure) Kharkiv07  ( T ) 00:57, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

1901 Census of the North West Frontier Province

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This is a transcription of a primary source that is known to be unreliable. It includes links to numerous other articles that may or may not in fact be the communities designated in the census. Basically, it is verifiable only due to a failure to comply with WP:RS. Without context, and with the links, it is effectively useless. A similar article by the same creator has already been deleted. See: AfD of 1901 Census of Rajputna. KC Velaga ☚╣✉╠☛  11:44, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Blank and redirect to Census in Pakistan, just as it has been done with 1998 Pakistan Census. No need to copy data across. — kashmiri  TALK  16:03, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - I see no need for census per year per province; this is not a textbook. I do not see the comparison that kashmiri makes above because the 1998 Pakistan Census was for the complete country, for which there is a fitting main article, not for a province. DeVerm (talk) 05:44, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect, but to an article on early censuses in India (meaning the British Raj, not the present republic). Anything relating to Pakistan before 1947 would be an anachronism.  We had a discussion of some early Indian censuses a while back.  The argument was that they were thoroughly unreliable as statistical sources, so that the target needs to be an article discussing that.  The Northwest Frontier Province was also known as the unadministered zone, so that the ability of the British to obtain a reliable population count must be questionable.  Peterkingiron (talk) 10:01, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I would agree with that but which is the article you want to redirect to? I mean, it must exist for a redirect !vote to work... DeVerm (talk) 16:59, 4 July 2016 (UTC)


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