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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 03:13, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of residential buildings in India[edit]

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Not a useful list -- the possible contents here are so impossibly broad (every residential building in a country with a population of over a billion?!?) that the list is literally unmaintainable. Even if we impose the "article must already exist" restriction that we have the option of imposing on open-ended lists that are too prone to collecting non-notable entries, this would still be exceedingly difficult to effectively maintain -- even lists that do have that restriction in place still end up having to be monitored for the self-promotional addition of non-notable entries whose names are redlinked or unlinked or offlinked to their own websites. There's just no point in holding onto a list like this, where the drawbacks and potential problems so outweigh the benefits. Bearcat (talk) 15:11, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:53, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:53, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 15:54, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom and WP:NOTINDISCRIMINATE.Ajf773 (talk) 05:18, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, no valid or substantive argument for deletion presented, and this easily passes WP:LISTPURP as index of articles and WP:CLN as complementary index to Category:Residential buildings in India. The nominator's argument is nothing more than WP:SUSCEPTIBLE, a poor argument in general, and one that is especially ridiculous here where this list hasn't had a single edit since it was last kept by my close of the first AFD in December, let alone a problematic one.[1] We don't delete just because something requires "maintenance", and we certainly don't delete where there is not even a record of maintenance (or of any talk page usage, still true here as it was at the first AFD), but instead just speculation about "drawbacks and potential problems". And not that we need go into any further benefits, but the list also has plenty of room for development, to make it sortable for example, and annotate it. postdlf (talk) 20:04, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nomination and I believe that Lists that are too general or too broad in scope have little value. Residential buildings in India leads to a broad scope. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 09:41, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • The list has the exact same scope as the category, which has numerous subcategories. As the nominator of this very AFD has elsewhere said, one benefit a list can provide is to present all the entries of a parent category on one page, "providing a one-stop-shopping location for a category that's otherwise diffused into subcategories instead of directly containing all of its potential entries." The list can always be subdivided by header to sort its contents, or even split into sublists if there are enough entries to merit it. And as noted above and at the previous AFD, there has been zero talk page discussion about focusing inclusion or content subdivision on this list, so that effort has not even been made yet. postdlf (talk) 18:27, 14 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I believe there are at least a few thousand named residential buildings in each of the Metro cities. Add to this the many hundreds in smaller cities, big towns and then more in other places - and we have a humongous list which will, in my humble opinion, never be even one hundredth of a one-stop-shopping location. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 13:58, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This, like most lists on Wikipedia, are only for entries that have articles. postdlf (talk) 14:24, 16 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong delete-Too broad to be maintainable.And may I suggest the closer of the last AfD to kindly refrain from a hyper-active participation in this AfD?Winged Blades ^Godric 13:50, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Ridiculous, this could be a list of hundreds of thousands of buildings. That's what we have categories for. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:41, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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