Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of festivals of Maharashtrian Brahmins

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The result was Move. to List of festivals in Maharashtra. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:08, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of festivals of Maharashtrian Brahmins

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A case of WP:OR, self opinion, essay, and blatant lying through teeth. From the entire list, only one festival is exclusive to Brhamhins. Not sure how the creator or other editors came to such idiotic conclusions. —usernamekiran(talk) 21:37, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:40, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 21:41, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not being exclusive to Brahmins does not exclude an entry from this list. That is therefore not a valid reason for deletion. There is also no need for the lack of AGF. If there is nothing else to object to I would lean to keep. I only hesitate on that because the page is entirely unsourced, so this is a weak keep due to the unverified information. SpinningSpark 22:27, 14 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Spinningspark: A: This list has been unsourced since the creation, that is around 8 years. The pages that link to the article arent great either, one is from a subcaste of bramhin, and rest are list articles.
B: There are around 3,000 castes in India, and 25,000 subcastes. Such an article can be created for each, and every castes. With the only difference being title, and the names of caste-subcaste in the lead.
I cant see any encyclopaedic or educational value of this list. —usernamekiran(talk) 05:22, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
How long it has been unsourced is not relevant. The relevant question at AfD, as always, is whether sources exist at all. Have you done a good faith WP:BEFORE search? From your nomination's lack of AGF and insulting, ad hominem, tone its reasonable to assume you have not. I remain at wewak keep until we've heard from other editors.

That there are potentially a further 25,000 articles would be a strong argument for non-inclusion at a paper encyclopaedia with limited space. For Wikipedia, it is our raison d'etre. SpinningSpark 08:46, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Spinningspark: Hi. No, I did three quick searches (different keywords) before nominating. The searches revealed only two relevant results: first is a wordpress blog about "tamil brahmins festival". And the second result is exact copy of this very article. Now, i dont who copied who, but the copies are same. Other than these two, there are no relevant results at all. Not in any kind of sources journals/books/online, RS/non-RS, nothing. —usernamekiran(talk) 14:09, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:27, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kpg jhp jm 01:55, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Move and keep as List of festivals in Maharashtra. The list includes festivals celebrated by all in Maharashtra. The list can be expanded similar to [1] Redtigerxyz ^Talk 16:33, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Move and keep per Redtigerxyz. SpinningSpark 18:53, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Move per Redtigerxyz. I was the nominator, but moving to List of festivals in Maharashtra is a better option than deleting. I apologies for not coming up with this idea in the first place. I also apologise for wasting community's time. —usernamekiran(talk) 18:41, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- No need to apologise. It's not a waste of time if the result is an improvement to the page. SpinningSpark 18:52, 29 September 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.