Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Important battles in medieval Indian History


 * 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. There is a consensus that the article should be kept, but cleaned up and perhaps renamed. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 14:59, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Important battles in medieval Indian History

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This doesn't seem to be encyclopedic and though it would work better as a list I don't really see why that's necessary. A boat  that can float!   (watch me float!)  18:17, 26 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Undecided: On the one hand, WP:IDONTLIKEIT is not a reason for deletion. On the other hand, there is much that is worrisome about this list (it is, in fact, already a list): the inclusion criteria are vague at best and most of the battles currently listed are not medieval battles (making the inclusion criteria even more questionable). -- BenTels (talk) 20:09, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think deletion is necessarily the answer, but the article needs a copyedit and some major changes. First, if the article is to retain the present title, several sources that list many or all of these battles as "important" or, for that matter, medieval, must be found and added.  If not, which I presume will be the case (though indeed many of the listed battles were, in my opinion, important), the article could be moved to something like List of Indian battles by death toll or some similar characteristic, and organized that way.   dci  &#124;  TALK   20:16, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
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 * Move to List of important battles in medieval India. As a list it should work. --regentspark (comment) 17:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's a good topic, and reliable sources will undoubtedly be able to shake out a list of the battles that were the most significant, but honestly, there's nothing to keep here. No sources, precious little wiki markup, written by a non-English-speaker to the point of incomprehensibility. Blow it up and encourage editors to write a better one. –Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 00:34, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete: Subject of article lacks sources. Picking out some random battles and generating a list is pointless. Secret of success (talk) 13:55, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep The list is interesting and main reason for deletion seems lack of sources. The article can be developed with sources rather than deleted, because, list of wars fought in India is not available in other pages. Regarding "written by non-English-speakr to the point of incomprehensibility", I think english usage can be improved by some other editor! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayabhari (talk • contribs) 19:51, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 22:25, 2 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Rename approximately as regentspark, but to List of battles in medieval India. Unimportant battles will fail to get a WP articel and hence should not appear. The present structure of the article is unsatisfactory in that the part with headings to one line of text would be much better being added to the table, but that is an argument for improvement not for deletion.  It should remain a list-article.  Is "medieval" the best adjective for an article that ends as late as 1757? In Europe we would not use that for periods later than 16th century.  Perhaps List of battles in Moghul-period India would be better. If that does not cover the start of the list, that section can be split out inot a separate article.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:44, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep and Rename The article has potential to be developed as good encyclopedic article; may be renamed as "List of battles fought in India upto 1857" and sources to be added (article is unsourced-that is main defect).-Rayabhari (talk) 17:42, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep  Useful .Needs some copyediting,Shyamsunder (talk) 02:37, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 'Keep, edit, rename and add references -- Bharathiya (talk) 10:25, 9 September 2012 (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.