Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tube well


 * 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. Keep as is or merge, there is clearly no consensus to delete. Merge can be discussed elsewhere  So Why  18:48, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Tube well

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Tube well is a regional synonym for Water wells, which content this article duplicates (but not as completely). Article since 2014 has had only one reference (and so tagged). PROD was removed without improvement. A REDIRECT would recognize the regional use of the term Tube well, while the technology is the same worldwide. Notability is not measured by wikilinks, but by reliable secondary sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rhadow (talk • contribs) 17:32, 8 September 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge and redirect. I don't understand why deletion processes are being used, rather than mergeto and a merge discussion on the talk page. The nominator's comment about wikilinks apparently refers to my rationale for de-PRODding the page; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1426365 has 10 other wikipedia articles on tube wells, but now that I have looked at them, only the Punjabi one has additional citations (4 of them), and the Punjabi article linked to Water well is only one paragraph, which indicates that there may not be enough to justify two separate articles (in any language). – Fayenatic  L ondon 20:05, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 09:25, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 09:31, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 09:32, 9 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep Tube wells are a distinctive type of well and notable by that name. As this technology is commonly used for irrigation and human consumption and there are ample sources, there is no case for deletion. Andrew D. (talk) 22:14, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Searching on Google Scholar, I see over 23k matches for "tube-well". There are ten interwiki links to this article in other languages, most of these also have a separate article for water well. + m  t  21:35, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Discussion besides being a different term, please tell me how a tube well differs from a Water well usually cased with a factory-made pipe, typically steel (in air rotary or cable tool drilling) or plastic/PVC (in mud rotary wells, also present in wells drilled into solid rock). Rhadow (talk) 23:05, 10 September 2017 (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.