Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Indian mathematicians

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was -- The option that appeals most to me is the last one given - Nuke the article (It has no unique information; two of the names are red, and the only blue name is already in Indian mathematicians) and then move Indian mathematicians to this article. So it is written, so let it be done. --Golbez 18:56, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Indian mathematicians

This list is not significant enough to warrant a seperate article. There are only three entries here, only one of which has a real article. There is alread a List of mathematicians article. List of Indian mathematicians is somewhat presumptous and nationalistic considering there is no such list for famous French or English or Russian mathematicians, who greatly out-number Indian ones. 172.144.98.81 03:10, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. The list would look a lot better if it wasn't looks a lot better when not divided into mostly-empty alphabetical categories (really that's what makes it appear presumptious). But it seems that the better practice would be to make the missing lists (French, English, Russian mathematicians), which would certainly be in keeping with lists of persons in various other fields by nationality. -- BD2412 ^talk 03:51, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
• Keep. I've seen much more insignificant lists. Make lists for countries with substantial mathematical traditions. --Barfooz (talk) 05:49, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Indian mathematicians (under whichever title is the more consistent with style). Average Earthman 06:31, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: It seems somewhat presumptuous to try to force people from one country to wait until some other countries' lists have been created. Kappa 07:27, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The problem isn't the existence of this list, it's the lack of the existence of the other lists for French and Russian mathematicians, IMO. --Mysidia 07:37, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Create categories for Indian, French, Russian etc. mathematicians instead of creating more lists - Skysmith 08:43, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Categories cannot be annotated, formatted, rearranged, easily copied, merged or split, or have multiple titles for the same entry. They also don't work on most wikipedia mirrors. Kappa 09:52, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • While there are merits to the points in your first sentence, it's not our task to worry about Wikipedia mirrors, which in general disregard GFDL freedoms/protections and don't contribute to the cost of all this not-paper. Barno 19:12, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge. until with Indian mathematicians until the list has some more meat to it. And note to Skysmith, lists and categories are different and can be used simultaneously. Putting red links at the top of cats is ugly and you can't add b-dates to them. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:04, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Indian mathematicians. As per Earthman. JamesBurns 10:55, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No need for this as Indian mathematicians perfectly suits the need. --Oneliner 12:36, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • So after deleting this, what will happen the next time someone wants to start a List of Indian mathematicians? Kappa 13:41, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • We tell them there already is one under Indian mathematicians? Average Earthman 17:33, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
      • And we have another Vfd on the matter? Kappa 17:35, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
        • So leave a redirect under the List title, getting users to the desired information instead of having them recreate it, leading to a duplicate VfD. Barno 19:15, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Indian mathematicians --Carnildo 21:50, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and move Indian mathematicians over it. Per Wikipedia naming conventions lists should have "list of" prefix so this is the right title for Indian mathematicians.  Grue  18:21, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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