Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Indian scientists


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The result was   snow keep. Bearian (talk) 18:44, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

List of Indian scientists

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For the exact same reason we do not have any article of the name List of American scientists. This list is wholly redundant to a category and does not serves any purpose except spamming by IP editors. The Legend  of Zorro  16:12, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep and Improve - Actually, we do have an article titled List of American scientists. There's also List of German scientists, List of British scientists, List of Italian scientists, List of Russian scientists (This one is particularly excellent and should serve as an example for the others to follow), List of Chinese scientists, etc.  While nowhere near as nice as the Russian list, this list is better organized than many of the other ones and is entirely blue-linked.  Someone might ask WP:INDIA to consider giving this list a higher priority for work.  They only considered this list as mid-importance when they assessed it last year, whereas WP:RUSSIA considers their scientist list to be of top importance, which would explain the apparent amount of work put into it.  Also, lists are not redundant to categories.  Grandmartin11 (talk) 17:16, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that all of the entries were created by the single user Special:Contributions/Ahmed91981. The Legend   of Zorro  18:21, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Then we should thank Ahmed for creating them. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep I don't understand why this article is different than many of the other similar articles, not only of scientists, but of other fields: List of Russian ballet dancers, List of Australian architects, and List of German bodybuilders, just to pick 3 at random. I, for one, would be happy for all such list articles to be removed and kept only as categories...but that is not the current consensus, and I don't see why this one particular article is any better or worse than others. Qwyrxian (talk) 17:20, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. Precedent for similar others has been established. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC).
 * Actually all precedent was created by the single user Special:Contributions/Ahmed91981. The Legend   of Zorro  04:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think you understand what we mean by "precedent". We're referring to the fact that, many times in the past, articles on "List of Nationality Profession" articles have been created and improved by many, many editors. Some of these have even been taken to AfD before. The general consensus is that these articles are notable. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:02, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I am failing to see any AFD nomination before of any list of xxxx scientists. First of all the scientist term is vaguely defined and this makes it different from all other professions. Second in case of India the term Indian is also vaguely defined. In last view the article contains names such as *Baudhayana *Bhāskara I, *Bhāskara II, Chanakya and others which it should not contain under even the loosest criteria of inclusion in this article. In any case I will be willing to clean this total mess article and I am not hell bent to this article. The Legend   of Zorro  05:32, 16 July 2013 (UTC)


 * @Qwyrxian. Who are you addressing? Xxanthippe (talk) 05:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC).
 * Solomon7968/The Legend of Zorro. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:12, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Xxanthippe (talk) 05:13, 16 July 2013 (UTC).


 * Keep. One of the reasons given for deletion has been withdrawn, so I'll address the others: redundancy between a list and a category is not a reason for deletion and the tool to deal with spamming by IP editors (if it is real issue rather than just a fear on the part of the nominator) is semi-protection, not deletion. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
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