Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people from Kerala

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The result of the debate was Already redirected and merged (aeropagitica) (talk) 22:02, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of people from Kerala[edit]

This article just contains list of a few people and doesnt make any sense. Kerala is a state in India and you simply cant put the names of all the people in an encyclopedia article!!

Shijaz 10:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This sort of thing is great for a category, not so great as a list because it is too general and unmaintainable. Grand master ka 11:13, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I put [[ ]]'s round the names, and it turns out three already have articles. We have a List of people from Texas, so why not Kerala? --Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 11:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above. --Ter e nc e Ong 11:36, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep - Could be useful, although a category would probably be better. --RayaruB 12:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Categorify. I myself created Category:People from Helsinki, this could be changed to a similar category. JIP | Talk 13:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Categorify per JIP. This is where we go into the song and dance of "categories already serve the purpose that lists don't." RasputinAXP c 15:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (Duplication) An article named List of famous Keralites already exists and the article in question (above) is just a small subset of this article.Shijaz 15:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge what content will take it with List of famous Keralites per Shijaz, delete the rest. I agree on the face of it that we have lists of notables from every damned political subdivision on the map. RGTraynor 16:54, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to List of famous Keralites, keep the redirect. User:Zoe|^(talk) 17:16, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
DONE. Merged and Redirected. Some entries weren't there on the destination page, so I opened a discussion there asking someone to add details on those few people.
Keep Good list. Hawkestone 06:29, 15 April 2006 (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.