Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of states and union territories of India by voters


 * 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   keep. NW ( Talk ) 20:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

List of states and union territories of India by voters

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Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information.

Several other related statistical articles were created, linked in a box to the top right hand side of the article. Some of these (Population, Area, GDP) might be useful to merge into States and territories of India. Others (Underweight people, TV ownership) might qualify for deletion under the same WP:INDISCRIMINATE criterion.

Tckma (talk) 20:10, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * State-wise list of democratic participation is required to grasp the state of development of the nation.Anwar (talk) 20:15, 20 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  -- - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 20:43, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 20:43, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Updated below Title and article don't match, article has data about how many people voted (at what point??). A list should be maintained with population, area, GDP etc and a well sourced one exists at List of states and union territories of India by population. So, except for that list (and possibly merging a couple of others to it), the rest should come up to AfD as they are unsourced for the most part and also fail WP:INDISCRIMINATE. - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 20:51, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete a more detailed article already exists. Results of the 2009 Indian general election by state. -- L  I C  21:17, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment As it stands the article is redundant since its content is already available at Results of the 2009 Indian general election by state. However, if it can be expanded to include voter data from previous general elections, then it ca serve an encyclopedic purpose and may merit being kept. I'll try to re-review before the AFD ends; else please ping me on my talk page if the article is expanded. Abecedare (talk) 00:41, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually the voter data exists in other lists for all elections, the state tables aren't included in the earlier ones though, but those pages probably would be the best place to put them. I'm adding the template linking all such pages. - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 00:52, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't see the voter-by-state data for the pre-2009 elections in the articles listed in the template. Is that data available elsewhere ? Even if it is, it is useful to also have a single list for voter participation in all general elections. Abecedare (talk) 01:14, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per Abecedare and Spaceman. This list can be incorporated into other articles quite easily. Shiva   (Visnu)  00:46, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Kinda moot to oppose now anyway if both Abecedare and Spaceman are supporting. Since their points are addressed, I withdraw mine. Shiva   (Visnu)  10:35, 25 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep I found a source from which we can glean state-wise voter participation for all egeneral elections since 1951 . This in my opinion is an encyclopedic collection of data, and the article should be expanded rather than deleted. It may be worthwhile to rename it as List of states and union territories of India by number of voters. The page can also list the corresponding electorate statistics available here. Abecedare (talk) 01:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep per the improvements Abecedare has made and is making. I will hasten to add that the article has to be renamed List of states and union territories of India by number of voters in general elections - the last three words are necessary IMHO, because this list will be restricted to regular Parliamentary elections and will not cover state legislature elections or mid-term elections for parliamentary constituencies. - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 04:10, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep view - an organized list and I see no pressing need for deletion. Mind you, the renaming is a good concept. Bridgeplayer (talk) 21:56, 26 August 2009 (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.