Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of pincodes of India

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:57, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of pincodes of India[edit]

WP is not a repository of indiscriminate information such as lists of pin codes Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 04:36, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- SpacemanSpiff (talk) 05:00, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- SpacemanSpiff (talk) 05:00, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. These appear to be the Indian equivalent of United States ZIP codes, but is simply a list of those codes with locations. This appears to be nothing more than a list thereof. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 07:36, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This needs There are lots of articles similar in construction to this for other countries - see Category:Lists of postal codes, however all of them seem to have at least some explanation and introduction that this article lacks. I know WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a valid keep rationale, and similar articles have been deleted in the past - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of ZIP Codes in the United States by state, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of postal codes in India, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swiss postal codes 1000-1999, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of postal codes in Sri Lanka. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of postcodes in the Australian Capital Territory appears not to have come to a definitive consensus. These are all the deletion debates that link to the category, I've not looked for others, nor have I looked in detail at the debates to try and see if there is any pattern to what was deleted and what kept. No vote from me at present. Thryduulf (talk) 09:23, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is exactly the sort of thing WP:NOTDIR was crafted to prevent. Gigs (talk) 12:22, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:NOTDIR. Niteshift36 (talk) 04:03, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As above. Separate article on history of the PIN code system in India, if provided, can stand up as an article. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 04:46, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The article in its current form will have to be Deleted for all the reasons cited above. However, a new article Postal Codes in India or something like that providing information on how the postal codes are structured, the history and also a table with the allocation sequences will be encyclopaedic and useful. -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 18:30, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And that article already exists - Postal Index Number -SpacemanSpiff (talk)
- If this article is deleted (I still haven't decided if I want this or not), then that article (Postal Index Number) would make a good target of a redirect from this title. Thryduulf (talk) 11:21, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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