Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cases of mass hysteria in India


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 15:01, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Cases of mass hysteria in India

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A grab bag of incidents all described as "mass hysteria", with the only source referring to them collectively being the Hindustan Times. While individual incidents may be notable, I don't see any need to collect them all here--at worst this could be seen as POV-pushing India as a particularly superstitious country. I'm also troubled by the use of the term "hysteria" to describe a discrete psychological state, as it is no longer employed this way by medical professionals due to the term's history. Rosguill talk 00:23, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:25, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. North America1000 02:25, 4 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep/merge The worst case would be merger into List of mass hysteria cases per WP:PRESERVE. As we have Mass hysteria in the United States, any restructuring should be systematic to avoid systemic bias. Andrew D. (talk) 07:22, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge into List of mass hysteria cases as suggested by Andrew Davidson. That is a category, not an article, about mass hysteria in the United States. I do not see similar articles for any other countries besides India and that seems like systemic bias against India, in keeping with the concerns of the nominator Rosguill. The nominator makes very good points and it would be best to merge this. Promoting a POV that India is a backwards, superstitious country as this article implicitly does is a case of systemic bias on Wikipedia in favor of wealthy first-world countries where most editors are from, and violates NPOV. Whatever you do, do not keep the article, if merging cannot be agreed on I would rather it be Deleted than kept. I think merging is a reasonable compromise. Yetisyny (talk) 07:29, 4 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Random grab bag. Can't imagine why anyone would be in favour of keeping this mess. Andrew's comment (linking to a category that includes standalone articles on the War of the Worlds incident and the Salem witch trials, while carefully piping the link so it looks like it leads to an article with that title) is one of the worst cases of WP:OSE I've seen since ... well ... WP:PRESERVE also doesn't apply, as most if not all of this is covered in other articles already. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 07:41, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment I agree regarding that comment by Andrew trying to hide that it was a category, not an article, being linked to. As far as why anyone would be in favor of keeping it, I do think that the most notable instances from this, which are not already in the List of mass hysteria cases article should be merged into there but I am not saying to merge ALL things listed in this article into there, a lot of the stuff in this article is just not that important. Obviously it would need some serious editing to get merged, only keeping the things important enough to be listed in the target article. Yetisyny (talk) 07:53, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
 * FTR, I saw and appreciated the above. Your "merge" comment above was not my target with the "can't imagine why anyone would be in favour of keeping this" statement. I initially thought using the "thank" function would be clear enough, but then I realized that you're the only one who knows what comment of yours I was thanking you for, and others can see this discussion but won't check our thank logs. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 03:07, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * It is perfectly acceptable and commonplace wiki editing to pipe a cat link to hide the technical aspect. Even if it might be confusing here, you cannot assign any sort of bad faith to such an edit, let alone bring it up at ANI. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:48, 9 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete Clear POV forking from the articles that no longer has these contents per WP:NOTNEWS and WP:SYNTH. Accesscrawl (talk) 15:38, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: random collection of trivia; no value to the project in the current form. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:21, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep/Edit: As the author of the page I considered the subject of mass hysteria in India to be both notable and worthy of its own consideration. It was created as part of a general effort of mine to create and expand upon topics relating to India. I accept the criticisms offered here however (with the exception of the idea that it represents systemic bias against India) and concede that this particular page is quite flawed.Adondai (talk) 08:28, 11 September 2018 (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.