Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of airlines 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 Redirect to List of commercial airlines in India. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of airlines in India

Already better served by Category:Airlines of India. Prod tag removed. cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 23:52, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Cats are usually better than lists. Mr Stephen 00:43, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~ Delete I think there is a room for expansion. This is going towards Categories vs Lists discussion. Categories help in finding the articles. We can never do away with having lists. Lists don't just list articles, they expand and explain them. Compare Category:Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu with List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu. If your logic is right, there will not be a featured list. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 01:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is just a list of articles. You may have in mind a list like List of commercial airlines in India, which certainly has merit and I wouldn't dream of supporting its deletion. Of course, if we expand this list we would then have two lists doing pretty much the same thing, which we don't need. This list has nowhere to go: keep it small and it's useless; expand it and it's redundant. Bin it. Mr Stephen 11:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changed my vote (I know....AFD is not a vote :) to Delete since List of commercial airlines in India already exists. Stephen, Thanks for the link and response. Should we redirect this instead of delete so that new articles are not created? -- Ganeshk (talk) 19:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions. -- Ganeshk (talk) 01:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Ganeshk.Shyamsunder 06.44 ,20 November 2006 (UTC)
Delete unless made more useful (like List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu). Currently, it just lists the airlines. There are no red links either, so doesn't encourage creation of new articles either. utcursch | talk 11:38, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I think this information is best served by keeping the master airline list, List of airlines, up to date. Ben W Bell talk 12:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Category serves a better purpose for organising similar information than having a list. Whats the point of having a bad maintained list when a {{Airlines of India}}, other list as mentioned above and a category already exists, serving the same purpose. STTW (talk) 21:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. Since the list is complete I don't have a problem with redirecting to the category. Would be better then deleting the article and having it recreated in the future in the same form. Vegaswikian 01:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and re-direct into list of airlines for consistency with treatment of other countries/regions (for example, I do not see a list of airlines in the United States in Wikipedia). 38.100.34.2 01:06, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.