Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of South Asia


 * 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. As a navigational list, maybe retitle?  Sandstein  20:50, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

History of South Asia

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At the moment, this page is simply a massive See Also section, just listing various history articles. This isn't much of an article. If this page was an article, its contents would have to be almost identical to those of History of India, and although there is perhaps some room to say the two topics are not exactly identical, there is no denying that there is such a huge range of overlap that any article will suffer from massive duplication. CMD (talk) 14:41, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Asia-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:06, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:07, 4 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep. Useful outline page for navigation. Wouldn't have a problem with a rename to "Outline of South Asian history" if nom thinks that would clear up some confusion. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 19:07, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't mind if it was set up as an outline article, but even if it was, it would still be hard to justify it having a different title to the article it is outlining. CMD (talk) 03:21, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to History of India (note that this article is not about the country, but the subcontinent). There's even currently a major merge discussion ongoing to merge South Asia with Indian subcontinent. As the two are essentially the same, this would indeed be a duplication of History of India. Links and navigational aids can be incorporated into Template:History of South Asia, used on both pages.  Night w   19:49, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Lists of lists are useful navigation tools, and no policy-based reason for deletion has been articulated. Jclemens (talk) 22:49, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I articulated WP:CFORK. CMD (talk) 03:21, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment: This article may be renamed to Outline of South Asian history. — Nearly Headless Nick   {C}  13:17, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I can see what is currently in this article being part of an outline, which would make sense if we make it stretch up to modern times. However, the page History of South Asia shouldn't redirect to the Outline, but to the history article. CMD (talk) 21:06, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Keep and improve History of South Asia is a different topic than History of X country articles. A lot of books are available titled "History of South Asia". Before the advent of present-day nation-states, there were interconnection between the different geographical regions. In many aspect, South Asia stands as a unique and unified whole compared to the other regions. For example, South Asian Stone Age is different from Stone Age in general. The article in its current form is unencyclopedic, but there is scope to improve and expand this topic. --SupernovaExplosion (talk) 03:47, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * History of India is not a History of a country article, but basically a history of (at least the vast majority of) the South Asian region. CMD (talk) 10:18, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
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