Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people from Tamil Nadu


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The result was   Keep. As per consensus. Malinaccier (talk) 01:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

List of people from Tamil Nadu

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This is just a copy of List of Tamil people. (Note that in principle, there could exist different lists; in practice, the two lists are largely identical and updates to one list do not get reflected at the other.) Shreevatsa (talk) 18:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect, the piece is largely a duplicate of List of Tamil people. If that main article is to be split up this doesn't seem a particularly logical way to do it as there is significant overlap. Guest9999 (talk) 19:09, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, the lists are not copy of each other.The nominator has not looked at the lists carefully. The list of Tamil people has all Tamils whether from India or from the other countries notably Sri Lanka, Malasia etc listed therein. The list of people from Tamil Nadu has all Tamils from countries other than India excluded and non notable Tamils living in Tamil Nadu included. All Indian states have list of people from those states Lists of Indians by state so why can not be there be list of people from Tamil Nadu. Both lists are different lists and should stay as such. Of course the Tamils from Tamil Nadu would be found in both lists. . See also that List of Telugu people and List of people from Andhra Pradesh both exist and many names are common. See also List of Marathi people and List of people from Maharashtra So what is the problem? Shyamsunder (talk) 07:56, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I have looked at the lists somewhat carefully; most (at least 90%, it appears) of the content appears to be identical. As mentioned in the nomination, there is a hypothetical case for the existence of two separate lists, but the fact is that this list was created by copy-pasting from List of Tamil people, and unless either this article is merged into the other, or that article has the contents of this one split out (which doesn't seem easy), it is just mostly the same content under two different article names. The point about other articles is WP:WAX. Shreevatsa (talk) 08:22, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The fact that the two lists seem identical is only a reason for cleanup, not deletion- Ravichandar My coffee shop 17:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. The list of people from Tamil Nadu should include non-Tamilians also. Similarly, list of Tamil people should include Tamilians from any place.--GDibyendu (talk) 09:33, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - per GDibyendu C 21 K talk  23:39, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep- List of Tamil people is a list of people belonging to an ethnic group. List of people from Tamil Nadu is a list of people from a particular region. The fact that the two lists seem identical is no reason for deletion. It is rather a maintenance issue.- Ravichandar My coffee shop 17:11, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I agree with you. What would be a solution to the maintenance issue? Shreevatsa (talk) 18:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * We'll add the names of people who are non-Tamils but are from Tamil Nadu; there are many, in fact; Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Rajinikanth, M. G. Ramachandran, Periyar ,Thyagaraja, Hemang Badani- Ravichandar My coffee shop 01:58, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * No, I meant the question of maintaining the (large) set of names that are (rightfully) common. How does one deal with them? Is it possible to, say, create a common list and include it on both pages? If there is some solution to keep the two updated together that will not cause a maintenance nightmare, then I'd like to withdraw the AfD nomination, etc. Regards, Shreevatsa (talk) 02:06, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


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