Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian physicist

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 12:41, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indian physicist

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I feel like a list of Indian physicists might make sense, but not an article defining an "Indian physicist". This feels more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. BuySomeApples (talk) 10:08, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete We don't even have articles like Physics in (country); I can't see any justification for a "definition" of a physicist who "is connected to Indian origin" – ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 10:23, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dear @ClaudineChionh, With a good faith, may I know why you can't see any justification for a "definition" of a physicist who "is connected to Indian origin"- Sntshkumar750 (talk) 10:54, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sntshkumar750: § Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Someone who is interested in Indian physicists can browse Category:Indian physicists and maybe add the category to anyone who is missing. Someone who is interested in the history of physics in India can read (and maybe improve) History of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent. Why would we have an article on any combination of country + profession, unless a specific combination is particularly notable? — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 11:12, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dear@ClaudineChionh, may I know why do you feel that Indian physicists are not notable. When Boson is coined on the name of Satyendra Nath Bose, a light scattering known as Raman effect is name named after Indian physicist C V Raman, etc. Sntshkumar750 (talk) 11:23, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sntshkumar750: Of course those individual scientists are notable, that's why there are articles about them here. You haven't given any reason for this very broad and vague Indian physicist description to exist as its own article. That is what is being debated here. — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 11:27, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dear @ClaudineChionh, when those individual Indian physicists are notable, then why not an encyclopedia should be created to give the full description of the Indian physicists in a single page, so that the readers will read about Indian physicists, its histories and contributions in a single article. Sntshkumar750 (talk) 11:37, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sntshkumar750: I feel that we are talking at cross purposes and I welcome feedback from other editors. — ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 11:41, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science and India. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 10:24, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. We already have List of Indian scientists, which includes physicists along with other scientists. Dirac66 (talk) 11:46, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I agree fully with the nominator, but I think repurposing this into a list of Indian physicists with a bit of prose at the start on the history of physics in India would be an easy alternative to deletion. We have articles like List of German physicists, List of Russian physicists and List of Jewish American physicists, and I'm sure there are enough sources about Indian physicists as a group or set to satisfy WP:NLIST. So if the article creator wants to add a new section with a bulleted list of the entries in Category:Indian physicists and move this page to the new title following this AfD, I'm fine with a keep. Otherwise delete per nom. MCE89 (talk) 11:56, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. List of Indian Physicists, maybe OK, but this isn't it. Athel cb (talk) 13:50, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The original page creator has just created List of Indian physicists. This could redirect to that page but it doesn't seem like a likely search term. BuySomeApples (talk) 20:55, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The title on this is very strange, and I believe that List of Indian scientists is just fine. PickleG13 (talk) 21:25, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Perhaps an article like Physics by country would be more essential before we create country specific articles like this one. Ratnahastin (talk) 22:29, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Unnecessary imho. It's much better to create articles to specific Indian physicists instead.

KyloRen2017 (talk) 15:29, 14 June 2025 (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.