Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uttar Pradesh train accidents


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) sst✈  14:59, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Uttar Pradesh train accidents

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Does not seem to add much value over Category:Railway accidents in Uttar Pradesh. Vectro (talk) 20:51, 6 March 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep per WP:NOTDUP: "It is neither improper nor uncommon to simultaneously have a category, a list, and a navigation template which all cover the same topic."--Prisencolin (talk) 06:41, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure. Just that this particular article in particular isn't adding much vs a category. Vectro (talk) 02:37, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Upmerge to List of Indian rail accidents. No need for a specific page on one state. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:24, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 05:28, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Hey, this isn't comparable to, say, a "List of train wrecks in Rhode Island".  Uttar Pradesh is bigger than, well, ANY OTHER SUBDIVISION OF ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, apparently.  And it probably depends far more on train travel and freight than do countries of its size (such as the United States, it is almost as big population-wise as the United States!).  Compare this one's 9 collisions and derailments since 2010 to what's in List of rail accidents in New Zealand.  That covers, in more detail for each one, 11 incidents since year 2000, but including "10 July 2010, Wellington – Morning passenger services suspended after two trains bring down overhead lines."  No disrespecting the importance of a delay of commuters in a country of 4.5 million, but I suspect the number of person-years lost in train delays in U.P. each year are greater than all the person-years awake or asleep in Wellington, yet the U.P. doesn't list mere delays yet.  And no disrespecting the 10.5 million pop. corresponding to List of Czech rail accidents, with its 2 accidents listed that killed 4 since 2010, but incidents like 69 killed in U.P. seem more important.  How about merging those others into List of rail accidents in the southern hemisphere and List of rail accidents in Europe respectively? :(  It is entirely reasonable to have a separate list for each and every Indian state, methinks;  the India-wide list covers accidents of faint interest to persons living "hundreds of millions of persons away" (using an odd distance-measure, but my point is U.P. readers probably like a more relevant "local" list.  This list has different info than the India-wide list, but I think it would even be fine to have different cuts of exactly the same info. -- do  ncr  am  03:36, 16 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep – Qualifies for an article per WP:NOTDUP relative to Category:Railway accidents in Uttar Pradesh. The article would benefit from more sources to verify content that is not covered by the category. North America1000 14:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)


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