Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indian WhatsApp lynchings

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. Numerically, opinion is split, with a slight trend towards deletion. But the "delete" arguments are, in my view, not strong enough to establish a rough consensus for deletion. Many "delete" opinions are cursory or difficult to understand. They reference GNG, but they do not address the argument made by the "keep" side that there are in fact several reliable sources covering this topic (not just the individual crimes); as such, their GNG argument falls short. The "delete" argument that this is a fork of Fake news in India appears more defensible to me, but whether something is a content fork or a legitimate spin-off subarticle of another article is a matter of editorial judgment and not something for me as closer to decide. Absent consensus about this argument, the article is kept by default. Sandstein 07:30, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]