Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bengali American


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The result was Withdrawing Nomination - Would be better to convert it to a disambiguation page, as discussed below with Ansh666.--Bazaan (talk) 14:06, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Bengali American

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This article is a POV fork of Bangladeshi Americans. Bengali Americans can be grouped either under Indian Americans or Bangladeshi Americans, and there isn’t sufficient ground yet to have an entirely separate article for Bengalis. Anyone with mixed Bangladeshi - Indian heritage is called Bangladeshi-Indian American. But this article was clearly created in bad faith. It claims all Bengalis, including Bangladeshi Americans, are Indian Americans.

It’s pointless, ill-motivated and should be deleted.--Bazaan (talk) 18:35, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Bangladeshi American; current article is content (possible POV) fork, and people may mistake "Bangladeshi" for "Bengali". Ansh666 20:47, 5 September 2013 (UTC) Keep and convert to dab as discussed below. Ansh666 08:25, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC) Note: Please consider reading WP:INDAFD which includes some points about WikiProject India AFDs. Those may or may not be applicable here. Tito ☸ Dutta 00:54, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Bangladeshi American, as above. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:32, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: A section of the Indian American community are also Bengalis, so redirecting the article to a Bangladesh page will be controversial. Presently, this article only serves notorious fringe pushers trying to erase the Bangladeshi heritage of prominent Americans and replace it with "Bengali-Indian American". It's a complete fork and its being used in bad faith, so I don't see any point in keeping it.--Bazaan (talk) 19:35, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * True, but I know countless stupid 'murrcans who would confuse Bengali with Bangladeshi, so it may help there. If that's deemed not enough to make a redirect, sure, delete. Ansh666 21:40, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, it can't redirect to just Bangladeshi Americans. I guess we could opt for a disambiguation page listing both the Bangladeshi and Indian pages?--Bazaan (talk) 00:07, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, that would be better than a redirect. Ansh666 00:56, 7 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Bangladeshi American, as above.Few Bengali people from India in this list.- Jayanta Nath (Talk|Contrb) 06:53, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
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