Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Software industry in Chennai

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 keep. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:09, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Software industry in Chennai

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No-notability shown, dead sources. A few companies having offices in a city is not a basis for an article. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:10, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 23:14, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Article is completely unsourced and has no clear purpose outside saying companies have offices there. Nate • (chatter) 23:20, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete In addition to the problems mentioned above, it reads like someone started writing a promotional brochure and gave up three sentences in. XOR'easter (talk) 04:33, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This type of informative articles at Wikipedia are important to readers along with job seekers. This article explains the software industry in a particular City Chennai, Tamil Nadu, where the state population has 80 million and along with a a million plus outgoing annual graduates. The additional information should be added, it is going to happen over a period of time on wiki page. Applus2021 (talk) 05:58, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment We're not the Chennai want-ads, nor LinkedIn. If this is a job-seeker's main place to start a work search, they definitely need intense work counseling, because we shouldn't even be in the conversation. Nate • (chatter) 17:22, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. jp×g 07:38, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. jp×g 07:38, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete one short paragraph and one proper reference; this is definitely not notable. --K. Peake 08:01, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: The article has improved with quality information with reliable sources and passes WP:GNG. I request the above mentioned editors XOR'easter, Nate may recheck and revote, also if deletion required then nominate all states software pages like Software industry in Chennai, Software industry in India, Software industry in Karnataka and Software industry in Telangana along with Software industry in Andhra Pradesh. Take a decision Based on the overall consensus. Applus2021 (talk) 12:03, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: The chesspersons of Chennai seem to have a reputation in the rest of India for not appreciating jokes: and I believe at least one has a jacuzzi availble for meetings, but that is hearsay. On a more serious note a significant hub for outsourcing and software development with a reputedly rigorous regime in some shops. Dead links should be fixed or at least marked, might be recoverable automatically if I could kick IABot to work. Thankyou.Djm-leighpark (talk) 10:01, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to see how any of this is based on any WP:IRS. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:09, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

added two WP:RELIABLE sources to meet WP:GNG, some more will be added over a period of time. Applus2021 (talk) 15:46, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The key thing I've been concerned with earlier in the day was some really nasty URLs on the article, but I hope Applus2021 has sorted those, they've certainly removed some of my tagging. I'm reasonably sure an interesting article could be here ... a map would be great. There's actually Myriad of sources out there for this, so many its actually harder to select good stuff from flotsam. From memory one or maybe two on the article with Applus2021's latest edits look WP:RS, the may both be "TheHindu" related. Before closing by browsers today I note: "DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE WORK LIFE BALANCE OF IT PROFESSIONALS IN CHENNAI ISSN 0976-6502 (Print) ISSN 0976-6510 (Online) Volume 5, Issue 11, November (2014), pp. 21-33"; [1], phttps://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/%60Chennai-most-attractive-city-for-offshoring-services/article20203905.ece], "Fuller, C. J., and Haripriya Narasimhan. “Information Technology Professionals and the New-Rich Middle Class in Chennai (Madras).” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2007, pp. 121–150. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4132346. Accessed 27 Apr. 2021.". We are likely able to find more. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 23:09, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

added two WP:RELIABLE recent sources, Chennai is the home for 7 top rated IT companies out of 15 in India CNBC and The Economic Times source says Chennai is the hub for deep tech startups, some more will be added over a period of time. Applus2021 (talk) 05:28, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: In the course of discussion article improvements I note there are two loosely related articles/redirects that others have idnetified: I T Corridor->Rajiv Gandhi Salai and List of tech parks in Chennai, both really themselves in need of improvement. I am certainly not in favour of any merges at this point, and there is not a perfect fit for a merge anyway. Also I am also not in favour of an early merge of immature articles as it can stifle and straightjacket article development: this is similarities to (old school) software development where code optimisation is often better deferred; that is not to say major inefficiencies may not need to be tackled early. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 11:14, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. It is not impossible that the software industry in Chennai might be a reliable subject. However, the current version of the article only has one source discussing the subject directly [2]. The rest is either WP:SYNTH or broken. A WP:TNT is in order. JBchrch (talk) 23:11, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment:: added software backend services content, majority sources are recent and all sources passes WP:RELIABLE to meet WP:GNG. Moreover topic is important to the Tamil Nadu, India and major sources are government related works. Applus2021 (talk) 03:56, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

At the time of nomination the article has only one source with dead link, now the article has 23+ WP:RELIABLE sources, please re-check JBchrch, Headbomb,Djm-leighpark Applus2021 (talk) 11:29, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - The material Djm-leighpark has included puts the topic above the bar for me, although I was worried that this could be a high-maintenance article that we would better merge into the subsection of Information technology in India. However, the article is richly interlinked with other articles and I think our coverage of Indian IT would suffer if we were to go that route. — Charles Stewart (talk) 14:28, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Plenty of major news media and newspaper references there - 22 references to be exact. This article is definitely worth keeping! Kent Warfield (talk) 20:57, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

None are about software in Chennai as a topic, they're trivial press-release type of stuff that happen to be about topic X in city Y. I could find dozens of articles related to "Weather in Grande-Anse, NB" but that doesn't make the topic notable. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:49, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I checked and added, all the sources are relevant and topics on Software, deeptech, Startups and IT services only. Please read the titles and content at article references section. Applus2021 (talk) 10:07, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Topic can be adequately covered (and with a greater chance of maintaining overall perspective) at Information_technology_in_India#Chennai. MrsSnoozyTurtle (talk) 05:49, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment India has high density population cities, majorly working under software service sector or back end IT/ITeS support services. In my opinion city wise and state wise articles are required instead of single article with inadequate information. see Software companies of the United States by state [3]

These are categories, not articles. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:05, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Topic-wise, it can't be said non-notable. Content wise it needs a better writeup, but the present state is not too bad to delete. Agreeing with Djm-leighpark's rationale. Chirota (talk) 00:54, 16 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep the provided sources support the article and are plenty. As far as it being a proper topic for Wiki, I couldn't say. Is there any guidelines stating this type of topic is not allowed? Peter303x (talk) 19:29, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep more cleanup is needed, but enough has been done. The topic is notable and a merge to Economy of Chennai isn't helpful now that sourced content has been added. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 17:22, 22 May 2021 (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.