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


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The result was delete. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 21:25, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Index of Pakistan-related articles

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An alphabetical list of Pakistan-related articles. This might have made very good sense in the earliest days of wikipedia, but it's difficult to see why we should continue to keep it around. It is not complete: with links to 1,500 articles, it covers only about 6% of the approximately 24,000 articles currently tracked by WikiProject Pakistan. And the articles included are not in any way representative as a selection of "important" topics (something that's anyway done by Outline of Pakistan) – there are no entries for either the current president Arif Alvi or for his predecessor Mamnoon Hussain, there are no entries for big cities like Gujranwala or Mansehra, or for the country's 3rd and 4th most spoken languages (Sindhi and Saraiki).

This index is so incomplete that the harm it does in misleading readers far outweighs any conceivable benefit it might still provide. But even if it were to be replaced with a fully up-to-date list, the result would not be desirable: the complete article would be around half a megabyte big – even though that's still below the hard technical limit on article size, it exceeds the recommended upper bounds several times over.

If someone needs this list for any use at all, it should be moved into the project space. And if the article's title is deemed to be an eligible search term, then it could be turned into a redirect to either Outline of Pakistan or to Category:Pakistan. – Uanfala (talk) 20:59, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 21:02, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 21:02, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per my comment at Articles for deletion/Index of India-related articles. Reywas92Talk 23:27, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete for the same reasons underlined under Articles for deletion/Index of India-related articles. Ajf773 (talk) 06:37, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and India discussion.  J 947 &thinsp;(c) , at 00:31, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. 108.30.105.141 (talk) 10:55, 7 December 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.