Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of India-related articles


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The result was delete. czar 19:12, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Index of India-related articles

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An alphabetical list of India-related articles. It might have made perfect sense when it was started in 2003, and possibly its existence might have still served a purpose in 2007, when it was kept in this mass nomination of country indexes. Twelve years on, however, it's painfully difficult to see why this should continue to be lying around in mainspace.

The index is not maintained: it lists about 5,400 articles, which is only 2.5% of the 210,000 articles tracked at WP:INDIA. And it is not just villages or other minor topics that are missing from it: it doesn't link to the state of Telangana, or to the prime minister Narendra Modi, nor does it have an entry for what you'd imagine would be timeless topics like Brahmin and Brahman. So it can't even serve as a nominal guide to the more prominent topics, a job that's anyway done much better by Outline of India.

The index is neither complete nor representative, so its very existence is misleading to readers. And it's a magnet for editors' busywork: the regular edits it receives either disambiguate links, or insert links to obscure articles to be then claimed as "successfully de-orphaned".

If this particular list of articles is of any use to any editor, it should be moved to the project namespace. And if its title is deemed to be a likely search phrase, then it could be redirected to Outline of India or to Category:India. – Uanfala (talk) 01:45, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 02:02, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 02:02, 28 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. I'm not sure what the value of these index articles are, especially when we have categories that serve a similar purpose. And we have loads more of them: Category:Indexes of topics by country. Ajf773 (talk) 02:49, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Updated my vote to Delete. And I would go further to say every other article in that category should be considered for deletion as well. Ajf773 (talk) 17:26, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete or Move to Wikiproject I'm tired of people saying "Indexes are recognized to exist and are therefore immune from deletion until we have an RFC on the concept." This and other indices serve no purpose to the reader whatsoever. There is no reason someone would hunt through a massive unmaintained list of names without context to find something related to India – This is the internet and we have a search function (and a find in page function)! This is not a print encyclopedia where you need an index in alphabetical order to find what page something is on, you just type it in! The network of Category:India is much more relevant to users in navigating and organizing topics and much more likely to cover all pertinent topics since this is clearly quite incomplete. A number of people in 2007 mentioned monitoring related changes: If people use these then wikiprojects should maintain them (and a bot can even keep them updated) but they don't belong in the mainspace. This is what is done at WikiProject Mathematics/List of mathematics articles (A). Reywas92Talk 03:06, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete (or redirect to outline) per nom. I've tried deleting pages like this in the past (example), but had pushback. These pages may be "useful" in reducing the number of bad edits made (to other pages) by de-orphaners, but that's not a good reason to keep. If the wikiproject want it then move it there, but the wikiproject would be better off creating a new index from scratch. DexDor(talk) 12:35, 28 November 2019 (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.