Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Thai inventions and discoveries

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 16:36, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of Thai inventions and discoveries[edit]

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I'm not sure what to do with this. As it stands, the list, full of red links and unannotated, provides no information to the reader. It mixes cultural creations and commercial products with supposedly scientific inventions and discoveries, the only one of which seems notable is an under-development HIV vaccine. An informative list may be possible to create (albeit with difficulty, as nationalistic sentiment almost always creeps into such lists), but as it stands, I don't think this article meets the inclusion criteria. Paul_012 (talk) 09:10, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Thailand-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:40, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:41, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note relevant AFD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Filipino inventions and discoveries. postdlf (talk) 20:53, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ - Much red-linking for stuff which I suspect would not meet notability. Entries with blue links are for the most part not inventions or discoveries, and in some case like the HIV stuff, aren't even really Thai based on the information in the main articles. -- Whpq (talk) 19:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not convinced there's anything salvagable from the article, but if somebody wants to essentially rewrite it, feel free. - Whpq (talk) 18:55, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but prune. The topic is notable, as demonstrated by [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. See Scottish inventions and discoveries for an example of how to do such a list properly. Pburka (talk) 22:21, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but cleanup - There are a lot of sources that talk about inventions by Thais, but the article needs to be pruned and improved. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 23:14, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep but cleanup.LM2000 (talk) 00:51, 29 November 2013 (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.