Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Railway Schools 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 delete. The argument is that because insufficient sources exist to verify a well-formed list about this subject, Wikipedia should not have a list about this subject. I'll note that a broad-concept article about this subject exists at Railway Schools. Interested editors may wish to contribute there instead. Mz7 (talk) 08:32, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of Railway Schools in India

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No useful content Rathfelder (talk) 09:08, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:12, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:13, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:13, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• The page had been effectively blanked before you nominated it;[1] you're supposed to review a page's history before starting what appears to be a completely unnecessary AFD (see WP:BEFORE B.3.). So I suggest you take another look at the page and consider withdrawing, or actually present a substantive and valid deletion rationale based on the page's topic and potential. Until that is done, I don't see anything here to discuss. postdlf (talk) 15:06, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Happy to withdraw my suggestion. I'm afraid the sort of work I do doesn't lend itself to WP:BEFORE. Rathfelder (talk) 17:49, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, even with the content has been restored there is nothing of importance in this list. It just appears to be an indiscriminate directory of non notable schools with no indepth sources. Even the term Railway Schools is barely notable itself. Ajf773 (talk) 20:17, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment is there such an official list somewhere by the Railway Schools organization? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 23:07, 12 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Would it not be better to merge the list with the article about them? Rathfelder (talk) 07:16, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on how many schools are going to be listed. If it's less than 30 then it's not a big deal, but if it's going to be in the hundreds, then it should be separated. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:15, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

My concern is that is that the list just has a bunch of schools with the word Railway in it. While most of them are likely to be Railway Schools, there are NO references for any of the entries to confirm. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 15:05, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep and improve. High schools are notable per se, and these railway schools must have been studied in depth. It seems likely that this topic is covered properly in the India version of wikipedia but I can make little of it. (https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A4.) Oculi (talk) 10:55, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That link just goes to India. And there's already a Railway schools article here. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:15, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That link is just the article India on the Bengali Wikipedia though.--DreamLinker (talk) 02:02, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a perfect example of !voting without the slightest clue which shall be avoided.I don't know what the India version of wikipedia is.(Probably, you've equated India to France, Germany et al with their equivalent French or German wikis.)India has several regional languages, each with a wiki, of it's own.I don't have any idea, either, as to what we are supposed to do with the bn.wiki entry (In Bengali language, the second-widely spoken language in India) about India.......∯WBG^converse 17:03, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I think the topic of Railway Schools in India is likely to be notable, given the history of railways in India (which at one time had the world's largest rail network). The main problem with this article is that there are no references. As mentioned by AngusWOOF, it is not possible to verify if indeed each school is managed by Indian railways. I will try to add references to the article.--DreamLinker (talk) 02:17, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Certainly if these are run by a government agency, then reliable sources exist even if they are primary (official) ones. postdlf (talk) 14:56, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • If you can find a government agency that has a listing of the railway schools, that would suffice. I just haven't seen any of them. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 03:09, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment We also have Category:Railway Schools in India. Lorstaking (talk) 16:20, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete There's no sources. It's not clear that a single entry in the list is notable. Even if the concept or general history of railroad schools would be, individually the list entries are not. This sort of list should be maintained by some other authority, not by wikipedia. Zortwort (talk) 23:27, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete-Fails WP:LISTN.No source treats the concept of railway schools in India in it's entirety. SER and ER have their own webpages that mention the schools under them but nothing more.∯WBG^converse 17:03, 10 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.