Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Bengali literature


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The result was redirect to Bengali literature. Spartaz Humbug! 07:47, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

History of Bengali literature

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This page should be deleted as it is the same as, if not a worse downgraded version of, the Bengali literature page. In Wikipedia, no other language has two pages on their literature. Merging it (as suggested on the Talk page a few months ago) will be of no use as all the cited and well-sourced information is already found in the Bengali literature page. The extra information on this page is completely unsourced and the page is dwindling, with far too many categories and poor presentation. During the Talk page discussion page, also agreed with the deletion of this page. UserNumber (talk) 12:57, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. UserNumber (talk) 12:57, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. UserNumber (talk) 12:57, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of literature-related deletion discussions. UserNumber (talk) 12:57, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep/merge We have lots of pages about the history of literature including an extensive category organised by country: category:History of literature by country. There seems to be no particular reason to discriminate against the Bengali language's literature. Andrew🐉(talk) 17:16, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'm literally a dedicated contributor to articles relating to Bengali history. What you mentioned is a list of categories. There are no pages which have two pages for literature; the history is mentioned on the same page. For example; English literature (exists) and History of English literature (doesn't exist because history is already mentioned on the previous page!!). Do a search on Wikipedia and you will apart from Bengali, there is no other article which has a title like this "History of [language] literature", history is mentioned on the [language] literature page. Please read my comments again and view the two pages I mentioned in my original comment. UserNumber (talk) 10:46, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   14:34, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep/Merge -- There is scope for two articles, one on historic and the other on modern literature, so that one is a sub-article of the other. The problem is that the literature article is seeking to cover some of the same ground as the history one, which will not do.  I would suggest purging "literature" of its medieval and earlier parts, and "history" of its modern parts.  In that way we can get two focused articles, instead of the current unfocused ones.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:07, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge to Bengali literature. I think merging these articles can create an overview article on Bengali literature. After the merge we can consider WP:SPINOFF and create articles on specific time periods if there is too much information in one section or there is WP:UNDUE weight. The first step is to merge these articles and then access the information we have. Z1720 (talk) 15:26, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge as suggested, seems to be the most sensible way out. Bearian (talk) 20:33, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect Not really sure if any sourced material is there in History of Bengali literature to be useful to Bengali literature. However this way the history remains intact and any editor can access it if some useful material is there. Roller26 (talk) 14:15, 26 October 2020 (UTC)


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