Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Famine in India

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 was keep. — CharlotteWebb 01:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Famine in India

Article is a complete POV mess, it should be deleted or stubbed. Original text had a single reference from an obscure foreign press. Later on another author from a single-purpose account (who may or may not be the same person) adds a few more mostly obscure books at the bottom, and admits on the talk page that some are 'primary sources', which is against WP:OR. Additionally no page-number or chapter references at all are in the text. Article should be rewritten from scratch with NPOV in-mind, properly page-referenced and with verifiable references. Merzbow 19:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

It's clear this AfD is going to fail, so I've started editing the article to clean up some of the worst POV problems. I'll also hit the other articles that this same text appears in. - Merzbow 01:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep clearly encyclopaedic topic, whatever the state of the current article. (I don't think AfD is the place for this; the deletion process cannot solve content disputes like this). Demiurge 21:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and fix. The nomination suggests that the page is POV and poorly referenced; those are reasons to fix the page, not delete it. Eron 21:56, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions. -- Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 00:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I think enough references are provided, but expand the article and take out the line referring to the book written by Bhatia. Right now, the article reads like a thesis.--Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 00:32, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep article is a mess and probably should be canned and done again when the begining editor is feeling a little more committed. Complete abortive messes of articles almost never pass afds though so I may as well lend my support towards cleaning it up. •Elomis• 00:48, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep How can you remove a page on Famine In India what a load of utter right wing abuse. Famine in India has slauthted as many lives as the holocaust on what basis of facist logic should we ban web pages on this subject. It makes you think wiki is a western conspiracy. Grotesque. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.122.132.131 (talk • contribs) 20:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - AFD is not cleanup. Torinir _{( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options )} 03:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Can we please leave the Godwin's Law accusations and "western bias" nonsense out of the discussion and simply debate the matter at hand. Also, No AFD is not cleanup, but some articles are such a mess that they should be removed if they can't be quickly cleaned up. •Elomis• 06:48, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - {{sofixit}} Torinir _{( Ding my phone My support calls E-Support Options )} 15:53, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Cleanup. As an aside: the subject matter of this article is more notable than that of many other Wikipedia articles. 69.140.173.15 19:55, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - There have (sadly) been famines in India.Bakaman _Bakatalk 16:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
• keep please this subject is notable in a encyclopedic way and should be verified Yuckfoo 22:11, 26 November 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.