Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Vedic Individuals

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. Consensus is that this list is not useful to anyone in its current form. It can be userfied if someone wants to use it for Mahabharata etc. Shii (tock) 15:39, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of Vedic Individuals[edit]

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A long list of Hindu epic characters, not people from Vedas. Not notable as list. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 10:42, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ermmmm... It's hard for me to evaluate this since I don't know the material closely, but I have to say the presentation is hopeless: it comes across as Hindu fancruft, not a useful index of characters. Mangoe (talk) 12:06, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails stand-alone list notability as a non-notable topic. Incredibly, someone has taken this mess and self-published it as a book on Amazon - I kid you not. Philg88 ^♦talk 15:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hinduism-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep in a variant form. While a list of contemporary fictional characters can exist and flourish to FL; like List of Naruto characters, I see no reason why such a list of characters of epics can't exist. We do have List of Homeric characters as well and then there is a huge family at Category:Lists of fictional characters. Is it poorly presented and incomprehensible? That's no reason for deletion. If need be; and probably that's a best way; it can be split into List of Mahabharata characters and List of Ramayana characters and the rest can stay over here or at another named page. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 05:24, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that lists of characters from Mahabharata and Ramayana would be notable. Maybe create stubs so that this can become a merge decision? 05:34, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

You are right. But How do we split it? The list has no connection. It has Valli, who is never mentioned in the epics and is a tribal deity assimilated in Tamil Hinduism. Sati-Dakshayani is inaccurately identified with Parvati, her rebirth. It has a listing of Ikshvaku dynasty kings from Kusha onwards, which are not included in the Ramayana, but appears in the Puranas. I agree that we should create separate lists of epic characters. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 09:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A good list of Mahabharata characters in particular would be quite useful, but that's a separate collection. Mangoe (talk) 11:50, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If we agree, I can start on such lists separately (disregarding this article). Also for Mahabharata I suggest we limit to characters of the central plot. Due to its story in story format, almost all characters in Sanskrit Hindu scriptures may exist in the Mahabharata, the world's longest poem. Even the story of the Ramayana is embedded in the Mahabharata. Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:36, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Separate lists seems to be the way to go and I'm sorry I can't help - my expertise in this area is rudimentary to say the least. As for this AfD, given the proposed new articles, I can't see an alternative close other than "delete" - "keep in a variant form" is not an available outcome. Philg88 ^♦talk 05:43, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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