Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of British people in India

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 23:44, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of British people in India

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This article started under the title British in India, about some aspect of British rule in India [1]. Somehow, at some point, it became a list of "British people who were born in India or lived there at any point", which it still is, and which is clearly not an unencyclopedic topic. Even if we were to limit the scope to just "British people born in India", I don't think that would be a valid list; there are no other "List of X people born in Y" articles.

Perhaps British people in India, i.e. people of British descent currently living in India, could be a notable topic, like British people in Pakistan, but nothing in the current article or its history is useful for that, so in that case it would be better to start over. Scratch that: Anglo-Indian people already covers that topic. Lennart97 (talk) 19:40, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Lennart97 (talk) 19:40, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Lennart97 (talk) 19:40, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Lennart97 (talk) 19:40, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:50, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Didn't occur to me when I added the unreferenced tag and requested the move to the current title which the nominator did from RM. However, with that said, the article, Anglo-Indian people is far more detailed than this one and perhaps the better already existing alternative. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 19:51, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I assume an infinite list (without some sort of guidelines),and unencyclopedic. Deathlibrarian (talk) 06:48, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - as has been said above no guidelines mean virtually anyone from the UK who has spent time in India could be added, and that is not something that belongs on Wikipedia. The Anglo-Indian people article covers what I suspect this list was aimed at in an encyclopaedic way, so this is really redundant in any case. Dunarc (talk) 20:55, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NLIST.--Ts12rAc^{talk to me} 10:38, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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