Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of books related to Buddhism (2nd nomination)


 * 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 10:18, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

List of books related to Buddhism
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This list is not encyclopedic. The number of books on Buddhism is extremely large; this list is extremely short. This makes it look like these are Wikipedia book recommendations. We have list(s) of books related to Buddhism on every article on Buddhism. They are called References and Further reading and thus they are topical. This list is just a catchall for whatever the creators and editors of the list wish to promote. It thus fails WP:PROMO. Skyerise (talk) 21:00, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:26, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Buddhism-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:26, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:26, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:SALAT as too broad to be practical. (WP:SALT to prevent its reincarnation.) Clarityfiend (talk) 21:30, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. This is why categories exist, it’s ridiculously impractical to try to list every single book related to one of the largest religions on the planet. Dronebogus (talk) 21:51, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete: Principally, WP:SALAT, but a couple thoughts:
 * I wrote a far-too-long comment on the Page's Talk page, but one of my core concerns was that this list has, over the years, drawn extraordinarily little engagement. My comment was the first in eight years on the Talk page. For much of the list's many years in existence it only had two or three items. People often respond to proposals to delete with suggestions for how a page could be made better, but I think that the history since the last deletion proposal suggests that there's very little reason to think that this page will get better. Not one of the people who supported keeping the page when it was listed for deletion eight years ago subsequently added to the list or maintained it in any way. It's not going to get better, because:
 * Aside from the various MoS reasons that this is a problematic page as currently constructed, I think that one of the key principles that we should be thinking about for any page in Wikipedia is how readers might find it or use it. I can't think of a useful purpose for a page like this other than for a reader who wanted to find books that gave them very basic info on Buddhism. But a better place for that would be—as the nominator suggested—by the further references list on Buddhism. If there were many lists of Buddhist books of different kinds (List of Theravada ethics manuals, List of textbooks on Abhidhamma, List of books on Tibetan Buddhist history…) then this would be a good spot for a list of lists, but that's not the situation we have. Pathawi (talk) 22:27, 4 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete Like others per WP:SALAT. This is list has a far too broad scope especially as one of the world's oldest and largest still practiced religions. The Buddhist texts article already provides a place for this kind of content if need be. Vladimir.copic (talk) 00:36, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:SALAT: too broad. JimRenge (talk) 00:43, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete the current version of the article. If someone wants to recreate it just listing books in the category Category:Buddhism studies books, that is books with their own articles and which clearly state they are about Buddhism in their lead, then that would be a valid list.   Some entries on this current list were added by single purpose accounts, most likely to advertise.   D r e a m Focus  01:32, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment There are a lot more books and subcategories in Category:Books about Buddhism. Skyerise (talk) 21:46, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete largely a TNT delete. It should be possible to make a list article of high-quality secondary sources about Buddhism, but this isn't it.  The version  from 2013 was better but still suffered from stealth promotion and arbitrary choices. User:力 (powera,  π,  ν ) 23:02, 6 November 2021 (UTC)


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