Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of residential buildings 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 keep. Deletion commenters complaining about what the lack of "notable" in the title means are incorrect. Most lists on Wikipedia are restricted to notable entries. This may be clarified on the article talk page or in a comment in the wikicode if there is confusion on this point, without including an inappropriate self-reference to WP guidelines in the title. See MOS:LIST#List naming. Further questions about scope or inclusion may be resolved on the talk page (so far unused here), with inclusion in the complementary Category:Residential buildings in India as a guide. postdlf (talk) 13:57, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of residential buildings in India

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This article needs to be retitled if it is to be a viable list. The population of india is around 1.3 billion.... TheLongTone (talk) 14:44, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:22, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:22, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:22, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not so sure. WP:CSC allows us to manage potentially unwieldy lists and right now it is confined to bluelinked articles. I don't see why it doesn't meet WP:CLT. I'm also surprised that there is no residential sub-category in Category:Lists of buildings and structures by type. It's broadly recognized that this is a list that should not be exhaustive per CSC and any problems that might emerge in the future with overly long lists of non-notable Indian residential buildings can be solved via normal editing. Keep. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:29, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- For the record, I have just created Category:Lists of residential buildings. There's just three lists at present that I can find to populate it -- including this one -- but it seems an obvious sub-cat of Category:Lists of buildings and structures by type with room for growth. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:55, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - There's List of American houses, most of which seems to be houses notable for their size or famous residents. Peter James (talk) 20:12, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It is implicit that it is a list of notable ones. We don't put the qualifier "notable" into the title. --do ncr am 14:41, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Implicit my Aunt Jemima. It is essential that clear criteria for inclusion are stated.TheLongTone (talk) 14:15, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My point is that residential buildings can be notable for a variety of reasons. Buckingham Palace, Ronan Point, and Highpoint are all notable residential buuildings, but other than the fact that people have lived in them they have little in common. It's obvious that without inclusion criteria this list is potentially a random selection of things. TheLongTone (talk)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 00:46, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. It is a list of notable residential buildings in the country. Passes WP:LISTN...Rameshnta909 (talk) 18:15, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree with TheLongTone about inclusion criteria. Most of these are tall buildings, which could be a suitable criterion, but there's already List of tallest buildings in India, which includes the tallest. It looks like most of these are (or could be, assuming they are verifiable) included there, or in lists for the cities in which they are located; exceptions may be Trump Towers Pune (no height stated, fewer floors than others) and The Park (not a building, so shouldn't be in the list, although Trump Tower Mumbai, part of the development, could be added). As that list mentions the use (such as residential) of the building, a list limited to residential would be substantially a duplicate, and this title is too vague and there's no content worth merging. Peter James (talk) 20:06, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and potentially WP:NOTIINFO. While there is no harm in creating a list of (notable) residential buildings, WP:LISTCRITERIA would imply that any residential building in India could be included. For a country wtih 1 billion people this could be endless. Support deleting this article and splitting down into sub-articles more relevant to cities or states where articles are more likely to be encyclopedic. Ajf773 (talk) 19:44, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Each state can be made into a separate section like they did in List of American houses...Rameshnta909 (talk) 19:49, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, st170e^talk 01:40, 18 December 2016 (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.