Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of states and territories of India (population, area, languages)


 * 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. A redirect is not necessary to preserve attribution history, as this article contained only an image and a table of population figures sorted by state name, and has never had anything else. There was no copyrightable content to be infringed here, and if there were, it would have been the property of the (unnamed) source both articles were created from. &mdash;Cryptic 04:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

List of states and territories of India (population, area, languages)

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Redundant. The article name implies that it contains consolidated info about populace, area and languages, however, the article has info only about the population. This info is well-documented in List of states and territories of India by population. aJCfreak y A k 09:57, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions.   —User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 10:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Redundant to the article listed above.  NA SC AR Fan 24 (radio me!) 10:34, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as redundant. Both the articles were created by Dorfen, who made his/her last edit in 2004. utcursch | talk 10:53, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as redundant. Keb25 10:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * delete - I agree with above, the article is redundant. Iamchrisryan 13:52, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge and delete: To the extent any content in the AfD'd article can be merged into the one it is redudant to, do so, fix any links to it to go to the good one, then delete (without post-merge redir, since the name is so poorly formed no one would ever possibly look for it). —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 15:14, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Completely redundant, almost like a duplicate. This article is not needed. STORMTRACKER   94  20:58, 2 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge and important notice about GFDL. As both these articles have existed since 19 March 2004, when two identical articles were created: it is not unlikely that information has been copied from one to the other and vice versa. As the GFDL requires author history to be preserved, we always merge articles when there is a significant overlap. See also Help:Merging and moving pages about why and how articles are merged. Therefore, the articles have to merged, which in this case simply means redirecting this one to the more extensive and up-to-date version, as no real information has to be merged at this point. For the record, this issue (author history) is also the reason why delete and redirect and merge and delete options are (in the vast majority of the cases) inappropriate. Also, merging of obviously redundant articles can often be done without bringing it to AfD or any other discussion forum. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:34, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
 * This seems like something WP:SPLICE can do. -- Jreferee    t / c  06:47, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge per above. Artw 20:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Unnecessary duplication.--Bedivere 19:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant page. -- ♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪  walkie-talkie  |  tool box  14:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to List of states and territories of India by population GizzaDiscuss  &#169; 03:01, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Compare the population per state numbers in List of states and territories of India (population, area, languages) (undated) with ditto in List of states and territories of India by population (as at March 2001), then redirect. Anthony Appleyard 08:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I am not going to touch this one.  Can an experienced sysop help here? Bearian 00:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.