Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Correlating Politics, Government and Law 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 delete. –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 16:29, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Correlating Politics, Government and Law in India[edit]

This article is marked as being "under construction", but I don't believe that an article with such a diffuse topic could possibly be encyclopedic regardless of the contents that are added. The existing material looks very random, and none of it is yet sourced. I suggest merging anything good into the more specific articles that this one comprises. looie496 (talk) 00:03, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/delete per nomination. This one looks like a lot of unsourced information, though it looks factually reasonable (at a glance). There are already articles on Indian Law, Indian Politics and Indian Government. TheFeds 06:02, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, redirect and close nomination: Pages for merged material should never be deleted but instead redirected to retain attribution of the merged material as required by the GFDL (merging histories usually messes up the history of the merged-to page). Also, mergers should be requested at Wikipedia:Requested mergers not AFD. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:49, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, my familiarity with the technical aspects is limited, and I'm not completely sure what you're saying. Do you mean that it was improper to bring this to AfD, or are you just indicating how this should be handled if the result is not keep? Wouldn't it be improper to merge and redirect without asking for discussion first? looie496 (talk) 16:53, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:34, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment to Nominator: Discussion to merge should not be initiated here. This page is specifically for AfD. Outcome of discussion maybe merge but it should not be the starting point. This nomination fails deletion as you yourself are proposing merge. --GPPande talk! 20:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I nominated because I don't believe there should be an article on this "topic". The fate of the material is another matter. I don't even know if there would be anything to merge, since the article is currently pretty much unreferenced and I'm not familiar with articles on related topics. Anyway, I would be happy to strike the last sentence of the nom if it is improper. As a practical matter, though, I don't see how what you are saying could make sense. If the outcome here is "delete", the closing admin is likely to immediately delete the article, and then how could the contents be merged anywhere? They won't be accessible. looie496 (talk) 21:43, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Vague overgeneral unencycopedic article. some of the links might be useful, but the article isn';t. DGG (talk) 04:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It's not clear what the article creator's intention of this article is supposed to be. If the goal is to describe the factors that affect politics, government, and law in India, one might as well just redirect to India, but this title is not a likely redirect selection. If possible, I would like to hear from the article creator to find out what they have in mind for this article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:N, WP:V; hard to tell what the topic of the article actually is - it appears to duplicate several topics in the extensive footer Template:India topics and synthesize them into one. The editors who wrote it did some good work, but that content would be better merged into the other related topics. --Jack-A-Roe (talk) 05:26, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I would normally suggest merging, but this is so unencyclopedic, it's only fit for deletion. TopGearFreak ^Talk 15:40, 22 November 2008 (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.