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*'''Keep''' per lav-chan --[[User:Ageo020|Ageo020]] 03:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC) |
*'''Keep''' per lav-chan --[[User:Ageo020|Ageo020]] 03:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC) |
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*'''Delete''' It is pure patent nonsense. Nobody can verify the entries in the list. It is casteiest and very ofen self promotional. In many cases the listed people are those who have denounced their caste origins. It makes it doubly nonsensical. [[User:Kuntan|Kuntan]] 07:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC) |
*'''Delete''' It is pure patent nonsense. Nobody can verify the entries in the list. It is casteiest and very ofen self promotional. In many cases the listed people are those who have denounced their caste origins. It makes it doubly nonsensical. [[User:Kuntan|Kuntan]] 07:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC) |
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*'''Delete'''. There was an Afd discussion last year at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Famous Nairs]]. Being a newbie and less cynical than I am now, I argued vociferously to keep that article. For a few months, I tried to keep the list sane, failed utterly and even got abused by a few drive-by editors. I can say from my personal experience that there is no way this list can be verified, or names restricted only to those who are famouse because every other editor who passes by adds names of his choice. [[User:Tintin1107|Tintin]] ([[User_talk:Tintin1107|talk]]) 08:00, 18 September 2006 (UTC) |
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Wikipedia is not a directory; The persons listed here have not "significantly contributed to the list topic" . Their contributions are in other fields and this list merely traces the caste they belong to. It is not known wheteher everyone listed here would like to be listed as members of a particular caste or whether they consider themselves to be members of a particular caste.Clt13 09:11, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Weak keep, but it needs heavy editing. I'd say you've unearthed a pretty good collection of related articles that need to be either reworked or deleted, but the list itself (with some work) seems OK. On its face it doesn't seem any different from, say, List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people (which as far as i know is an acceptable page), but there is one difference: Most, or maybe all, of the people on the Nair list are probably unknown to English speakers and are not notable enough to have even more than a few paragraphs attributed to their articles. (I mean if you click most of those links, they're stubs that offer no explanation as to the notability of the individual, and even some of those that do have serious POV issues.) So i guess my suggestion is two-fold: (1) Go through and get rid of all the non-notable people in the list (there are a couple, but apparently not many); and (2) order it by name, not 'major area of work'. I don't know enough about India to do the former myself though. ~ Lav-chan 09:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Comment. If you order it by name, you might as well turn it into a category. ColourBurst 22:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Keep per Lav-chan Doctor BrunoTalk 18:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Keep, but "unknown to English speakers" does not mean nonnotability. eg Li Bai is relatively unknown to English speakers, but is still notable enough to have an article. ColourBurst 22:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Weak keep interesting concept, needs a bit of cleanup though. —ExplorerCDT 22:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
- Keep per lav-chan --Ageo020 03:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete It is pure patent nonsense. Nobody can verify the entries in the list. It is casteiest and very ofen self promotional. In many cases the listed people are those who have denounced their caste origins. It makes it doubly nonsensical. Kuntan 07:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. There was an Afd discussion last year at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Famous Nairs. Being a newbie and less cynical than I am now, I argued vociferously to keep that article. For a few months, I tried to keep the list sane, failed utterly and even got abused by a few drive-by editors. I can say from my personal experience that there is no way this list can be verified, or names restricted only to those who are famouse because every other editor who passes by adds names of his choice. Tintin (talk) 08:00, 18 September 2006 (UTC)