Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brown Sahib

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 of the debate was KEEP —Whouk (talk) 10:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brown Sahib

Transwikied to Wiktionary already. Listing here to establish consensus as to whether this should be merged with and redirected to Sahib, expanded, or deleted. TheProject 22:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: A search for this term on Wiktionary brings up only one result, which is irrelevant. No vote on my part. Royboycrashfan 00:15, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: I hope you're not looking in Wiktionary's mainspace, as the article was transwikied to wikt:Transwiki:Brown Sahib in Wiktionary's Transwiki: pseudo-namespace, where meta dictates it should go. TheProject 07:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete ---|Newyorktimescrossword 02:30, 8 May 2006 (UTC)|
• Delete per WP:WINAD. Stifle (talk) 14:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep and expand. Might do it myself at some point. Let me explain: any article on the title 'sahib' will have to be completely different from an article on this phrase, which is a term with a very specific and rich sociological meaning. The word 'sahib' in the phrase, in this context, refers specifically to the British; a brown sahib is someone who imitates the British. Fairly important for the postcolonial theory crowd. There are discussions of this, by among others, Homi Bhabha in the Location of Culture. Homi being a bit of a brown sahib himself. Hornplease 09:07, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand - an unpleasant term but one in regular use. Gerry Lynch 10:54, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

• keep per Hornplease... ---J.S (t|c) 19:48, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep but clean up and expand - The term is definitely used by some South Asians but it may be a minority as it appears in South Asian English but not as far as I know in South Asian languages. Examples in English include Anil Chowla's article, Venkat Lakshminarayan's article as well as this article in Q-News. Green Giant 00:00, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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.