Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Causes of the merger of the territories of French India with India

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The result was delete. Sandstein 07:56, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Causes of the merger of the territories of French India with India

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essay; it is a list of former French possessions in India combined with likely original research on why/how they were handed back to India, not an encyclopedia article. Maybe each of those discrete parts might be encyclopedic, but as of now, it is just an unencyclopedic essay. Zoozaz1 (talk) 20:25, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bilateral relations-related deletion discussions. Zoozaz1 (talk) 20:25, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Zoozaz1 (talk) 20:25, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:OR--RegentsPark (comment) 20:31, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Delete.
WP:NOTESSAY and original research. Ajf773 (talk) 23:44, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Delete any needed analysis of this issue can be included in the article on French India, there is no need for this content fork.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:16, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- This is a horrid article, but contains significant content which we do not have elsewhere in WP.
French establishments in India is a long article, which is cluttered up by including a long list of governors and commissioners. If that were moved to a separate list article, there would be plenty of space for merging the section of the article under discussion as a new section "End of French India". Several of the territories unilaterally decided to join the Indian republic and the rest followed. According to something I heard (not necessarily true) it may be that residents of these territories are entitled to French citizenship, which in turn entitles them to work in EU. Thus perhaps this is not as dead a topic as it might appear. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:04, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply
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Comment One problem with merging any content from this article is that it almost entirely unreferenced. The basic points of integration are referenced and discussed briefly at Political_integration_of_India#Colonial_enclaves. 24.151.56.107 (talk) 15:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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