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.
Nirgrantha (Sanskrit) or Nigantha (Pali) is a word that arises regularly in the Buddhist and Jain scriptures. It refers to people who left their lives as householders committing full-time to the religious life. These people played a most important role in the evolution of Indian Religion. Therefore a young student wishing to understand these matters will be at a loss without access to such information. It is like deleting the article on the Essenes for being too esoteric. 81.106.127.14 (talk) 22:25, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or merge to Jainism. The current article might well be more suitable for Wiktionary than for here - but that does not automatically mean that we should be deleting it. As the article suggests, nirgrantha and its synonym nigantha (Find sources:Google (books·news·scholar·free images·WP refs) ·FENS·JSTOR·TWL) seem to be widely-used terms for older versions of Jainism or (particularly in religious texts) for certain traditional Jainist doctrines. The terms do not seem to be exact synonyms for Jainism, and with the number of G-hits for them, it may well be possible to write an article that deals with differences between nirgrantha specifically and Jainism in general. However, even if it is not, the correct application here of WP:DICTDEF is not deletion but redirection of the terms to Jainism together with preservation, within Jainism, of sufficient information to make clear how they relate to Jainism - in other words, merger. PWilkinson (talk) 15:57, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:16, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, →Bmusician 11:44, 1 May 2012 (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.