Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bias in South Asian Studies

Bias in South Asian Studies

Indology is a stub, but here we host a detailed florilegium of every Hindu prejudice on the internet. This is not even a pov-fork of Indology, it is an ab-initio pov-fest, completely one-sided, unsalvageably biased and unencyclopedic. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. A short "history" and "alleged bias" section on Indology will be more than enough. dab (ᛏ) 17:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There is no reason to delete this page. But create a page for South Asian Studies and make Bias as a section for this article.
Delete per nom. Oy vey, that's one heck of an article. -- Kicking222 17:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nominator. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:50, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This article is precisely about prejudices in South Asian Studies, and if you see there is "Hindu prejudice", then you could add your viewpoint into the article. An AFD is not a subsititue for a NPOV-tag. I'll be the first to concede that the article needs to be improved. The article may have too much focus on the AIT controversy, but this is again not a reason for an AFD.

The topic itself is notable, the biases in Colonial Indology on the one side, and the allgegations of biases in contemporary Indology have all been the subject of much criticism, and there should be a aricle where this can be described. It doesn't look good to claim that it is "unsalvageably biased", either one is able to add his own viewpoint to an article, or one is not. --Sendrin 19:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

my argument is that articles titled "Bias in" should be deleted in most cases. I agree there is some (little) encyclopedic merit hidden beneath the polemics. This can be safely merged with Indology and/or colonialism, Hindutva and national mysticism. dab (ᛏ) 07:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. Notable topic; there is potential for improvement. Buchanan-H e rmit™..SCREAM!!!.... 00:11, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep.The reasons cited for deletion looks quite unreasonable.Bharatveer 03:33, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per dab. =Nichalp «Talk»= 07:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Undecided. Withdrawing my vote but needs a copyedit. =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep, the article seems very well referenced, so it is not WP:OR. -- ReyBrujo 20:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Indology as a section. utcursch | talk 05:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Good Topic. More should be known of how the colonialists degraded the culture and altered the history of the country they ruled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.171.48.22 (talk • contribs) 8 May 2006, 12:24 UTC (UTC) Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:48, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as POV/OR. Stifle (talk) 15:27, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]