Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian property bubble


 * 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 delete. Joyous! | Talk 15:51, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Indian property bubble

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PRODded twice, with the second rationale reading:

The first rationale was:

There was (and still is) a timeline in the article, but most of the sources that are still accessible do not mention a property bubble or even a collapse in Indian real estate prices, and are instead about random events that "look like" speculation about a property bubble. One source from 2013 discusses a "marginal" decrease — never exceedind 6% on a quarterly basis — in real estate prices in 22 cities in India, whereas there was an increase in 4 others. There is an outdated statement about a predicted collapse in "the next three months" sourced to a 2015 article and another article from 2017. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 08:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Salvio giuliano 10:28, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Economics,  and India. –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 08:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Prob delete - this one is quite tricky because there are clearly a lot of articles in the Indian media talking about a property bubble over several decades. The issue (for me) is that it appears most/all of these were subsequently shown to be speculation (or an oversimplification or both). So I guess one could have a well sourced neutral page saying that the media and certain economists have predicted that "the property market is a bubble.." a lot of times, but honestly I'm not sure how useful that would be. Policy-wise, I think there are likely enough RS to meet the GNG (in terms of the topic of an Indian housing bubble) practically speaking it is going to be very difficult to actually write it without sounding like a bad university essay. JMWt (talk) 10:57, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * I'm inclined to agree with . Probably delete. Of course there are sources. Newspapers and economists are forever speculating about the future perils of the property market. You could write an article saying almost anything about almost any country's property market in almost any decade, and find sources to support it. But describing future speculative fears that are now past, in a balanced and meaningful way is extremely difficult. The symptom is that the current article reads like an original research essay, and cherry-picks random events that don't seem so big in retrospect, e.g. "In July 2015, LIC Housing Finance put up the Orbit Residency Park project of Orbit Corporation, in Andheri, Mumbai, for auction. It had a reserve price of ₹1.25 billion (US$16 million)." (In a country the size of India, a US$16 million thing isn't going to topple governments, or even make much of a lasting ripple). If the subject is deemed notable, the article needs some serious work (or starting over). We can't have an article that reads like a single editor's political viewpoint. Elemimele (talk) 22:09, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. There might concievably be an article here, but the fastest way to find it would be to nuke this one and start again. Kathlene Smoot (talk) 01:53, 21 February 2023 (UTC)


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