Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian Chilean

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:15, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Indian Chilean

Not notable. This article is not about the indigenous people of Chile, but Indians from India in Chile. I never heard about Indians in Chile, and they are not prominent in Chilean society. This article looks like original research, and it lack sources. The article claims there is a "tiny minority", but does not have any numbers on the population. Lehoiberri (talk) 02:40, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete--the article does say there's 650 of them, but that's about all that is said. Here also I have not been able to find anything, and the article gives nothing. Drmies (talk) 03:02, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 05:52, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Chile-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 05:52, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. cab (talk) 05:52, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete After quite a bit of searching, I've found only a few reliable sources, which in my opinion do not go beyond trivial coverage:

[1], an interview with the president of an India Indian community association conducted by Chile's National Congressional Library; he claims there's 1,400 India Indians in Chile
[2], a report by India's Ministry of External Affairs which has about 2 paragraphs about their nationals in Chile (claiming that a few went in the 1920s)
There's also an unreliable source [3] which claims that a Sindhi named Bhai Haroomal was the first India Indian to reach Chile, in 1905

Despite the fact that they might be a larger group than Russians in Chile, I don't see that there's enough information about them to write an article. This is a perfect example of WP:BIGNUMBER: numbers are not notability. I don't recommend merge/redirect because the title is a neologism and the article contains no sourced content to merge. Maybe later, someone can use the above sources to add a brief comment in Non-Resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin. Or if someone knows of another source beyond the above, I might be convinced this topic is worth having an article. cab (talk) 06:59, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Unsourced, and questionable. The template states that there are 650 persons from India in Chile and that Iquique, Santiago, and Punta Arenas have significant populations, a level of detail that, not sourced, may have been made up. I'd expect that a nation of more than 1 billion people would have had more residents in Chile. The approach seems to have been to create a template, then to create stubs to fill the template. It should be the other way around: create a decent article, then update the template. Mandsford (talk) 14:32, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Demographics of Chile. Scaldi (talk) 22:14, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Indigenous peoples in Chile. The article has no merit as an encyclopedia article but the title would be marginally useful as a redirect. Reyk _YO! 23:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Why merge it to the Indigenous article, this is about Indians from India. India's Indians are not indigenous Chileans. Lehoiberri (talk) 02:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But what he's saying (and I'd agree) is that people would be more likely to type in "Indian Chilean" when looking for the the original inhabitants of the territory (i.e. Chilean Indian tribes, like the Aymara), than they would in looking for people from India. Mandsford (talk) 02:48, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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