Talk:List of Muhajirs in Pakistan

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Category Category:People from Karachi is enough. --Spasage 05:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PROD delete at Famous Muhajirs

Hey..you recently removed the prod at the above article saying the article has a "long history and several editors". I was wonder how edits by the same FEW people count has that. Additionally, if you don't want it deleted should you not write on the discussion and not just remove the prod? [—Preceding unsigned comment added by Thejermdotorg (talk • contribs) ; copied from my talk page]

Sorry to take so long to get back to you, I'd fallen behind a couple of days on XFD and was catching up. Another reason it probably took me so long, frankly, is that I did not see anything inadequate about my edit summary. Unlike some deprodders, I always try to leave some explanation of my reasoning in my edit summary, even though it's technically not required. Furthermore, while prodders are supposed to specify their rationale for deletion on the template, very few of them elaborate on their reasoning on the article's talk page. Why should I feel obligated to leave long discourses on the talk page explaining myself, when prodders usually offered rationales just as terse as my edit summaries?

However, to get to your points. Yes, I realized that most of the edits came from the same circle of contributors, but there were still a number of them - you see them as "few," I saw them as "several." But another reason for my deprod was that your rationale that the article was "only a list of names of people are are immigrants" suggested to me that perhaps you were unfamiliar with the subject matter and wasn't aware of the relationship of the Muhajirs to Pakistani national identity. By analogy, suppose there was an entry for "Famous Pilgrims," and it was prodded on the grounds that it was "only a list of names of people [who] are immigrants." You might wonder if the prodder was a foreigner who was unfamiliar with American history and culture, right? Now, someone could be well-versed in American history and still think that such a list was "unencyclopedic," better served by a category, or that it should be deleted for some other reason, but I would still be uncomfortable with having it deleted based on lack of awareness. I've encountered many WP:HOLE prods where people are passing judgments on foreign topics or unfamiliar fields, and I worry that it can lead to overhasty deletions (just yesterday, for example, I deprodded EMILY's List). --Groggy Dice T | C 17:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC)