Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hindi News


 * 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   keep. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:05, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Hindi News

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Seems to aim at being a list of all Hindi language news sources - however such a list will never be complete - should be a category instead Passportguy (talk) 20:25, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment That's no reason not to have a list. Certainly the number of Hindi news sources is finite, anyway. Drawn Some (talk) 20:28, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The scope of this artcile is just to broad. We need to stay focused on here to produce good quality articles. A list of Indian TV stations - fine. A list of Hindi language newspapers - okay. But a list of all newssources, including TV, radio, news papers, magazines, blogs, websities, bulletin boards, public announcements etc etc etc is never ending and not helpful. Passportguy (talk) 12:25, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of News-related deletion discussions.  --  I 'mperator 21:08, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  --  I 'mperator 21:09, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Changing to Keep No sources for an article that is really just a list of some Hindi news sources. Priyanath talk 03:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Changing to keep after reading Spaceman Spiff's comment below. Article should be renamed to reflect that it is about the history of Hindi newspapers, and history section should be expanded. Article also needs to be better sourced and written as an encyclopedia article. Priyanath talk 17:50, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. It's perfectly valid for us to have a list of news sources in any language, and especially one as widely spoken as Hindi. This article is a perfect start to that, providing some contextual information. If it ends up getting too large it can be split up into newspapers, broadcasting, etc. The fear that this will list every blog, web site and bulletin board is unfounded because every list is implicitly confined to notable subjects unless otherwise stated. The current name of the article might not be the best one possible, but that doesn't make it deletion fodder. And yes, there need to be sources, but can anyone honestly say that there is any possibility that no sources exist about this subject? Let's use common sense rather than lawyering. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:18, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

This is not just a list: This is not a directory of all the Hindi news sources, but an article on how the Hindi news media has evolved. It will help not only those people who want to understand the history of Hindi news media, but also to those who want to understand what is the current state of this field/market. Of course, it has not taken that shape yet, but this deletion debate started just when the first para was written. So please, let it evolve (and contribute) instead of pressing the delete button! Indusmedia (talk) 05:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Needs some development, but a reasonable article. Title probably should be changed, but thats for later. DGG (talk) 00:32, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I just started working on this article when I found that a list already exists: List of newspapers in India. Given that, this article just needs to be the history of news media in Hindi, it isn't there yet, and the content isn't sufficient for a page yet. I think such an article will be good, but this isn't there yet. -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 04:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep There is a clear difference in the nature of this article and the other article List of newspapers in India created by Spaceman7Spiff. One can just have a look at both the articles to see how different these two are. In fact, some of the early comments for deleting this article were based on the fear that this article was going to be a list. And List of newspapers in India is actually a list, useful list I would say!
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