Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boards of Education in India

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The result was delete. ST47 (talk) 18:39, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Boards of Education in India

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Violates WP:DIRECTORY. We already have a category for this: Category:School boards in India; this list duplicates that with no additional content, and serves no purpose other than acting as a spam magnet for unreferenced and/or non-notable boards and similar organizations. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 17:59, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:38, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are these boards of education ubiquitous? Is India divided up into districts such that there can be a "complete" list of boards? There seems to be a list by implication at Template:School education in India. Are they an essential part of educational authority in India? The article doesn't explain what these boards are, how they're formed, what authority they have, whether schools are required to obey the boards, or anything else. --Closeapple (talk) 19:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not really clear on it myself, but from this article, it sounds like there is a mix of (1) at least one central government-sponsored board (2) private org boards and (3) state-affiliated boards (presumably one per state?) The issue here (the source of spam) is the second category. Most of these private are probably not-notable (and of questionable legitimacy). OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 20:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - per nom. Poorly sourced, ill defined list which is often little more than a spam magnet. Category:School boards in India exists and better serves any "purpose" the list might have. See also WP:NOTDIRECTORY #7. -- Begoon 02:25, 19 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Per the nom. We have categories for information like this and there already is one for this topic, so this article is serving no purpose, except as a spam magnate. Violates WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Newshunter12 (talk) 06:13, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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