Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poets of Sindh

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The result was redirect to List of Sindhi-language poets. There is consensus here that while the topic might be notable, the list as it stands is not worth keeping. Vanamonde (talk) 10:24, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Poets of Sindh[edit]

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We already have a list on the topic. I don't see why should we have this type of article. AhmadLX (talk) 19:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:03, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:03, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Nosebagbear (talk) 10:45, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:06, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I do not see any problem in having an article as well as a list - eg, there is an article on English poetry (poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language), and a List of English-language poets, and probably there could be (if there aren't already) an article on Poetry in the United Kingdom or Poets of the United Kingdom (which included other languages), and a List of poets from the United Kingdom. (And there's National poetry, "a list of articles about poetry in a single language or produced by a single nation.") In this case, the scope of the List of Sindhi-language poets is actually different from this article about Poets of Sindh, because not all the Poets of Sindh write in Sindhi. However, the current article on Poets of Sindh appears to be a List of poets of Sindh, not an article about them. If it was an article, it should organise them by themes like period, language, style, etc, and say something about each period, etc. As a list, it should surely be systematically organised - the current contents are semi-alphabetical (sometimes by the name placed first, sometimes by the name placed last, and sometimes completely out of order). So as it is, it does not seem very useful (though I know AfD is not supposed to be about the quality of the article, it would seem useful to either be an article or be a list). As to whether the topic is notable - there seem to be plenty of sources about eg Sufi poets of Sindh, Persian poets of Sindh, mystic poets of Sindh, classical poets of Sindh, suggesting that an article or list of Poets of Sindh could be divided into those topics. The book Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Other Sufi Poets of Pakistani Languages (comes up on a google search, but no preview) says "Many prominent poets of Sindh have produced, besides Sindhi and Persian, Urdu poetry also", also suggesting possible divisions for an article on Poets of Sindh. But while the topic does appear notable, I am not sure if this article/list is worth keeping. RebeccaGreen (talk) 09:31, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I endorse RebeccaGreen's very sensible and pertinent comments. The current content is not an article but a list; it's poorly but not wholly uncited; the topic is surely notable; and it could be made into a list and structured into Sindhi, Persian, and Urdu sections. The existing List of Sindhi-language poets could then be merged into the Sindhi section. Just my tuppence worth. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:48, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect, possibly merge, to List of Sindhi-language poets until somebody rewrites this as a proper article rather than a content-fork list. Sandstein 09:33, 20 December 2018 (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.