Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles

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 procedural closure. This is not an article, it's an index. That's different from a list, which would be in the right place here. Lists may have text appended to the entries, indexes have only entries without any text. This is the wrong place, start a discussion about index pages at the pertaining project or the Village Pump, if necessary. (non-admin closure) Kraxler (talk) 01:32, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Index of Andhra Pradesh-related articles

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A big unmaintainable mess, and redundant to Category:Andhra Pradesh Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:03, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, impossible to maintain. This function should be taken by a category.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:50, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:51, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:51, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – the alphabetical nature of lists like these make even rather large indices easier to maintain than structured item lists. (See example to the right). This is because various utilities readily work on them. The list maker from AWB and AWB's database scanner can be used to gather topics on the subject – AWB can make, dedupe (remove duplicates), alphabetize, and add list formatting (alphabetical headings, bullets, and link brackets) to lists of 10,000 entries easily. Then the list can be combined with the existing index, and after loading the expanded index into the database scanner, it can be deduped again – that way, you retain links from previous builds. The mathematics department, for example, maintains a vast index (with over 50,000 entries), showing that article indices are readily maintainable. Bots can also be used for index maintenance, but AWB is easily accessible by any user with over 500 edits. The Transhumanist 22:14, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment An alphabetised list like this is totally inappropriate and impossible to navigate (although paradoxically it's probably easy to maintain, e.g. by robot). A properly categorised index would be really useful and definitely merit a keep (and could co-exist with a category per WP:CLN). Even if it was trimmed down to a list of lists that would be useful: to pluck a few out at random List of birds of Andhra Pradesh, List of cabinet ministers of Andhra Pradesh, List of Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, List of cities in Andhra Pradesh by population, List of dams and reservoirs in Andhra Pradesh. Rather than unilateral action, I'd like to see some consensus on what should be done, and AfD really isn't the best place for that. Colapeninsula (talk) 11:09, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – Indexes are highly appropriate reference aids -- they comprise one of the navigation systems of Wikipedia (see Portal:Contents/Indices), and Wikipedia has a WikiProject devoted to them. AfD is not the proper venue to seek the elimination of the index system - that would take a wider discussion of the Wikipedia community. Please don't damage the index system by deleting one of its pages. Lists like this are relatively easy to maintain, because they are relatively easy to build. But much more importantly, having all the topics on a subject gathered to one place is incredibly useful, especially when that subject's topics are buried in a collection of almost 5 million articles! First of all, it takes a great deal of time to navigate to multiple lists or category pages when what you want to do is browse, skim, or read EVERYTHING on the subject. Tab loading tools work best from a single location, and AutoWikiBrowser (the auto page loader and semi-automated editor) is most powerful when used with lists like this, because this index allows it to access the entire subject in a single batch. Wikipedia's Related changes tool is also most powerful when used on a consolidated list like this because you only have to click it once for the entire subject: through it this page serves as a convenient watch list for this whole subject. And don't forget the most useful feature of an index: it lets you browse the entire subject in a single document, and when you spot something you are interested in, enables you to go right to it. This page works hand-in-hand with the Outline of Andhra Pradesh, which serves as a table-of-contents for this subject — the other key navigation feature of a book. Please keep this index. Thank you. The Transhumanist 13:34, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per WP:NOTDUP relative to Category:Andhra Pradesh and the subcategories therein. It's a useful index article that can be further improved. In terms of improvement, for starters, I have changed the formatting by adding bullet points between entries in place of commas that were previously being used. The article also has some useful red links for promising new articles that categories cannot accomplish. This article is also within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Indexes, which I am a member of. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:45, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Davewild (talk) 19:54, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep

Comment Do you want to delete all the articles from Wikipedia which are similar to this article. The Wiki Articles available in following Categories are similar to this article.

Category:Indexes of topics by U.S. state
Category:Indexes of topics by Canadian province
Category:Indexes of topics by country

When the state got bifurcated, it is advised to change the article title to "Index of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana-related articles" or delete the content related to Telangana state. When there is no maintenance problem for this type of articles in USA and Canada, how is it applicable to an Indian article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwdt2 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JAaron95 ^Talk 12:37, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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