Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of hotels in India

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The result was keep. ✗plicit 11:26, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of hotels in India

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Article is rendered unnecessary by the existence of Category:Hotels in India. Generally speaking, Wikpedia is WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NOTGUIDE, with a sprinkle of WP:INDISCRIMINATE BrigadierG (talk) 11:08, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists and India. Shellwood (talk) 11:39, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per WP:NOTGUIDE Imperfect Boy (talk) 12:25, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Valid navigational list. Eliminate any entry that does not have its own Wikipedia article. Dream Focus 18:33, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I say eliminate any redlink not supported by a source or two establishing significance. It is useful to have redlinks to guide development. --Doncram (talk) 11:32, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If it's a "navigational list", then it falls afoul of WP:NOTDIRECTORY. BrigadierG (talk) 01:50, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
comment I have a hard time with this sort of list, but I don't see how this can be singled out from among the other members of Category:Lists of hotels by country. Mangoe (talk) 03:38, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Depending on the result of this AfD, I'd consider a mass nomination if the consensus is relatively clear. The ultimate response to WP:OSE is to nominate the other stuff too. BrigadierG (talk) 08:45, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. As with past nominations of "List of hotels in ____" for other countries, this deletion nomination should be rejected. For example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of hotels in Nigeria is one that I can find. Here, the nominator speaks of categories existence supposedly removing reasons for having lists, which is patently false. Please see guideline wp:CLNT about how categories, lists, and navigational templates are complementary, and existence of one is not an argument to remove another. --Doncram (talk) 11:32, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, just because a list is a list does not mean it is a bad-type directory. WP:NOTDIRECTORY is about providing ephemeral info like opening hours, phone numbers, etc. which are not present here.

From another perspective, some hotels are obviously wikipedia-notable (because they have articles), and it is okay to have a (world-wide) list of them, and it is okay to split that for size reasons or for editorial/navigational reasons into countries or smaller regions. A list, unlike a category, can have introduction and sources and footnotes and redlinks indicating significant ones where a future article is needed, etc. This particular list, and many other hotel ones, seems unsatisfactory to me in that they do not contain descriptions and sources and redlinks indicating gaps, but those are matters for editing and perhaps tagging, not reasons for deletion. --Doncram (talk) 11:32, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. As per WP:NOTDUP and having this list with images of hotels in India can give a reader a quick indication of what the notable hotels in India look like. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 18:25, 23 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep meets our guidelines for lists Lightburst (talk) 02:46, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and improve if there are any issues. 103.249.233.6 (talk) 03:25, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Lists of hotels are OK so long as each list entry is a notable (has own article) and unique (not just a chain) hotel. There are quite a few here. Ajf773 (talk) 21:59, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:NOTDUP relative to Category:Hotels in India, and maintain to only include notable entries. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:39, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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