Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LIST OF CITY NICKNAMES 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 no consensus. Obviously as a matter of sheer numbers more users are in favor of keeping the article. However, there are arguments made by both sides that are invalid or weak, so consensus is a bit more murky than evident by the number of bolded words. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:31, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

LIST OF CITY NICKNAMES IN INDIA[edit]

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Non notable topic, easily covered in the particular article for the city, and also encyclopedic bordering on trivia (not to mention basic issues with this particular incarnation of the page). Shadowjams (talk) 21:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:06, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Needs improvement not deletion. Should be tagged for copyedit etc and alllow some time to grow and improve.--Shyamsunder (talk) 20:24, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't just need improvement, it's unsourced, and the meager list can easily be covered in its current form in individual articles. It'd be one thing if it was a reasonable attempt at a list, but it's almost the equivalent of creating a blank page and putting in 3 entries like this, then expecting everyone else to "clean it up", which is a tremendous understatement. Shadowjams (talk) 05:32, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep AfD is not for cleanup. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^Talk ^Email 11:51, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, the nicknames can be used in each article of the city. I fail to see the usefulness of a list of this nature. Tavix | Talk 16:44, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as completely unreferenced. If references are found for each of the entries, feel free to ping my talk page. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:35, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. I found some limited coverage of this topic as a group in a Google search, but I wouldn't consider any of it reliable. I am, however, reasonably confident that there are Indian sources (perhaps in Hindi) that discuss city nicknames in some detail as a group, thus satisfying WP:LISTN. I am not fully sure, but given that it would be easy to find sources that discuss U.S. city nicknames as a group (see Woman's Day for example), I think the same can probably be assumed about Indian city nicknames. --Batard0 (talk) 14:15, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ‑Scottywong | spout _ 17:11, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete What? Not useful. --TV (talk) 18:42, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I expanded the list and added sources to it. I think it is a notable topic similarly to other pages in the category City nicknames by country. Einstein2 (talk) 15:25, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Switching to keep after the sourced references from Einstein. Shadowjams (talk) 00:17, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep With the recently added sources, no reason to delete. It is of course an informative list. --Anbu121 (talk me) 21:11, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:GNG. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:54, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
keep passes WP:GNG, has sources, and would be useful to someone traveling in India.Righteousskills (talk) 02:28, 1 November 2012 (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.