Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Tamil films of the 1940s


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The result was keep. Pretty clear consensus to keep; discussions about renaming can be had at WP:RM &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 01:01, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

List of Tamil films of the 1940s

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Fails WP:LISTN and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. A confusing set of articles, and although I am sure the article creator acted in good faith, they are redundant. Despite the title of the articles, the lists originally contained lists of songs the creator deemed the most notable from each decade of Indian films, all of which was OR and completely unsourced. Other editors have removed these song lists, because they didn't match up to the title of the article, leaving them simply as ten lines of links to articles for List of Tamil films of (year). This effectively makes the article a navbox, and there is already a navbox for this purpose at Template:Tamil cinema. There is a reason why films (and other media) are listed by year rather than decade, it would make the article too long – these articles are simply redundant. I think these probably don't qualify for A3 speedy deletion. Richard3120 (talk) 19:28, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because they suffer from exactly the same issues and therefore the results will be "keep all" or "delete all":

Richard3120 (talk) 19:43, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 19:29, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 19:30, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Richard3120 (talk) 19:31, 26 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete this article plus all other Tamil films by decade articles in this category Category:Lists of Tamil films by decade and the category itself. I agree with the nominator they are redundant to the navbox which outlines every list of Tamil language films by year instead. Ajf773 (talk) 19:45, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep as a reasonable navigational aid. How is this any different from all of the other lists in Category:Lists of films by decade, e.g. List of Telugu films of the 1930s? As a random example, List of Soviet films of the 1930s also has a navbox. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:59, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I accept it might be a useful navigational aid (although I don't really see the point of having a page that just consists of two types of navigational aids). But it's not a list, so should the article title be changed? Richard3120 (talk) 20:21, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It's a list of lists, and the others have the same misleading format, e.g. List of Mexican films of the 1940s, so yes they should be renamed List of lists of xxx films of the nnnns. (P.S. I didn't say it was a particularly useful aid.) Clarityfiend (talk) 20:35, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Most of those articles are fine as they are as they are a list of films over that decade, they are short enough that separation by year is not required. Technically these articles up for deletion are lists of lists, instead of lists. Ajf773 (talk) 20:22, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * At some point, at least some the ones that contain films rather than sublists will probably fill out and have to be split. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:35, 26 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep. An aid to navigation. It sounds like the content issue has already been dealt with. Pburka (talk) 21:46, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy merge The year articles can be listed for navigation at Lists of Tamil-language films. It is utterly silly to have separate pages for each decade. Reywas92Talk 22:19, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
 * All but the first link there redirects to one of the articles nominated for deletion.  D r e a m Focus  20:24, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * But I don't see why this is a reason not to merge. Couldn't List of Tamil-language films easily be edited to have sections by decade that include each List of Tamil films of the 1930s, List of Tamil films of the 1940s, etc. listed? If merged, that would mean that the content from the deleted articles could be moved into one place. - Whisperjanes (talk) 19:30, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep These are used for navigation reasons.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:45, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep it assist with navigation. You could also perhaps merge this all together.   D r e a m Focus  20:24, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep it is certainly a list article which is a work in progress. Abishe (talk) 16:46, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge If its use is purely navigational, I feel like this would me a much more helpful list if it was merged all together into a single "List of Tamil films by decade," or even if it was merged into Lists of Tamil-language films as mentioned by (although I think the title of that article should possibly include "by decade.") I don't see any reason these should be separate lists. - Whisperjanes (talk) 19:30, 5 March 2020 (UTC)


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