Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Dharmasastra (P.V. Kane)

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was to keep the article. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  08:20, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

History of Dharmasastra (P.V. Kane)
Verbatim copy from sections of Pandurang Vaman Kane and an unnecessary duplication as the articles have the same content while the titles suggest difference. btw, I am the original author of Pandurang Vaman Kane-- Gurubrahma 16:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment: I think important books like this one should have their own article. This is at least the way it is done in other author-articles. --Machaon 17:17, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Agree with Machaon and I think that means keep Tintin 22:49, 1 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment: An article should add value - if I follow the link to the book from Pandurang Vaman Kane, I'd find it a duplication of material well placed in the Kane article. Either the info about the book should be expanded or it should be made a re-direct to Pandurang Vaman Kane. Also, it may be pertinent to point out that Machaon is the author of the Afd. --Gurubrahma 06:13, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep: This article is about a book by a particular author, who also has an independent article in wikipedia. Here, the issue is duplication of some texts from the article about the writer. In my opinion, to begin a stub, sometimes such duplication/ same contents with minor changes would be inevitable. This has perhaps happened in this instance. Over a period of time, other editors shall surely add relevant materials and this page shall continue to grow and the contents shall have further value addition. As such, there appears no justification to delete this page on the ground of duplication of contents. The contents should be allowed to mature. I am not sure, but I may add that the page may be moved to a page name 'History of Dharmasastra, book' or something similar. --Bhadani 09:46, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Hm. Yes, keep - and definitely renamed, so as to distinguish the history of Dharmasastra from the History of Dharmasastra. DS 16:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)


 * keep and definitely rename - sorry for listing the article on afd. Now I am clear about the purpose of having an article on the book as well. would edit both the pages on the book and the author significantly by the end of this month to reduce unnecessary duplication. Pls suggest a better re-name (am thinking of ---(book)). Hope this serves as a lesson to me before crying wolf on Afd in future. --Gurubrahma 06:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I think the present title of the article would also be ok. See for example Shakespeare (Anthony Burgess), Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau). But it could of course as well be called "History of Dharmasastra (book)" or "History of Darmasastra - Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India". --Machaon 10:20, 7 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.