Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sanskrit (disambiguation)


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The result was keep. And move to List of Sanskrit-related topics.  Sandstein  15:20, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Sanskrit (disambiguation)

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The term Sanskrit isn't ambiguous. All that the dab page lists are either subtopics, which are already linked from the main article (and its main navbox), or partial title matches (proper nouns that simply happen to include "Sanskrit" in their title). There's some prior discussion on the article's talk page. – Uanfala (talk) 13:15, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 13:15, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Retitle to List of Sanskrit-related topics. Not all the items on the page are in the template (nor should they be), and it's therefore a navigational aid. Narky Blert (talk) 13:26, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Nominally, this is an acceptable outcome, but the dab page lists only a dozen out of the hundreds of Sanskrit-related topics. I don't think we should be creating such "Outline of" style articles unless they're at least partially complete to begin with and there are editors willing to expand and maintain them. – Uanfala (talk) 13:56, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: Arguably, Sanskrit studies and Sanskrit are ambiguous. In that case, however, the language is the primary usage and disambiguation can be done with a hatnote. I would therefore not object to deletion, though it might be good to have some sort of navigation aid, as discussed by Narky Blert and Unafala, above. Cnilep (talk) 00:14, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Retitle to List of Sanskrit-related topics per Narky Blert. I am not so concerned about the incompleteness of the list. I think such a list will tend to be developed in the same way that other lists are. bd2412  T 01:19, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Retitle to something, possibly List of Sanskrit-related topics. It doesn't differentiate alternative meanings of Sanskrit, and is therefore not a dab.  Possibly merge into Sanskrit language topics. Certes (talk) 12:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I merged all the relevant entries into that template before nominating for deletion. And if anything is to become of this article, I think its title should begin with "Outline" rather than "List" (see Outlines). – Uanfala (talk) 12:45, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, adding any useful links not already mentioned to the See Also of Sanskrit and/or Portal:Sanskrit and/or Template:Sanskrit language topics. (Portal:Sanskrit already fulfills the function of the list article proposed by others above). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 13:58, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Retitle per Narky Blert. This is a valid index. The portal is not really an index. James500 (talk) 19:33, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Retitle I believe in the organic growth of such lists, and their periodic reorganization. Here there is too much potentially available for a list in "See also", and while the "CategoriesM" list at Portal:Sanskrit is useful, it is not the only way to organize the articles. --Bejnar (talk) 03:02, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Retitle I'd dispute the OP that The term Sanskrit isn't ambiguous. similarly to Cnilep, since the base word "Sanskrit" could refer to almost any of those articles depending on context, meaning the word itself is ambiguous as far as our article titles go, but it has a clear primary topic. (If I tell my non-Star Wars fan coworker that I'm going to see "Star Wars" after work, I'm probably referring to whichever new film in the franchise is in cinemas now, and not the original 1977 film or to "the franchise overall" -- whatever that would mean. This is similar, as "translated from the Sanskrit" could better refer to Sanskrit Buddhist literature, Sanskrit Wikipedia, etc., depending on context.) That said, retitling is probably the better move to begin with. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 04:31, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. There are two other legitimate entries - The Sanskrit College and University and Sanskrit Collegiate School. No objection to transferring the current content to an index page. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:42, 27 September 2018 (UTC)


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