Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stone pelting in India


 * 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 no consensus, or more specifically there is consensus not to delete but no consensus on whether to merge or not. Anyone wishing to merge the article is, as ever, able to do so without establishing a new consensus. Stifle (talk) 09:16, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Stone pelting in India

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An OR article. Stone pelting as a form of long-standing practice or crime worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia has already been discussed at Stone pelting in Kashmir. This article tries to take that and make it into a national affair with reports that some stone-pelters were jailed here and there. As a phenomenon, this exists only in Kashmir, but if a person picks up a stone anywhere in India and debrains someone, of course, he is going to be jailed for it. However, a couple of incidents don't mean that it is a national phenomenon. MistyGraceWhite (talk) 16:29, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 16:31, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 16:31, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Significant coverage also concerns regions outside Kashmir. Sections such as Stone pelting in India and Stone pelting in India confirms that this phenomenon is popular outside Kashmir as well and the nominator is utterly misleading. Harmanprtjhj (talk) 04:23, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * @User:Harmanprtjhj you need sources that say that this is a phenomenon outside kashmir. Merely giving news reports and combining them in an article is OR. MistyGraceWhite (talk) 08:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Sources exist on main article page. You should better withdraw your misleading nomination. Harmanprtjhj (talk) 05:57, 5 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Per above. Subject passes general notability guideline. I agree that the nomination misrepresents the scope of the subject. Capankajsmilyo(Talk 07:35, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * @User:Harmanprtjhj and User:Capankajsmilyo for the subject to pass notability there must be a Reliable source that talks about stone pelting in india as a phenomenon. In the entire article there is no such source. All the creator has done is collected incidents of stone pelting (most of them recent in lockdown and Citizen act protests) and then created the article under the term stone pelting in india. No reliable source has discussed this as a phenomenon. Take gun violence in the USA, there are multiple reliable sources that talk about gun violence in the USA, and the article is not just a colelction of news stories. There should be news stories included but the base of the article is a reliable source that should discuss stone pelting as a phenomenon. The article in its current form is just WP:OR. MistyGraceWhite (talk) 08:48, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete per nominator. Does not pass WP:GNG on its own merit as a phenomenon. Tayi Arajakate  Talk 20:39, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Stone pelting in Kashmir is either a legitimate sub-page of this page or it should be merged into this page, not the other way around. My very best wishes (talk) 02:55, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   09:07, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge with Stone-pelting in Kashmir unless a reliable source about stone-pelting throughout India is found. RedBulbBlueBlood9911 (talk) 11:38, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge Stone pelting in Kashmir to this article. With such huge sections backed with reliable sources about CAA and Coronavirus, you can't say only coverage about Kashmir is important. Ashishkafle (talk) 04:20, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - and merge Stone peltinh in Kashmir into this one.BabbaQ (talk) 21:39, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - Stone pelting in Kashmir is covered as a phenomenon that occurs in the region in its unique socio-political context as compared to the rest of India. Using the example of gun violence in the United States, it doesn't make much sense to create a gun violence in North America unless it were to pass notability on its own merit so similarly it doesn't make any sense to merge the Kashmir article with this one just on the basis of a geographical or jurisdictional hierarchy. This article also has a ton of original research, for instance the very first line in the lead. Tayi Arajakate  Talk 14:16, 19 May 2020 (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.