Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cow belt

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The result was redirect‎ to Hindi Belt. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:11, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cow belt

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Procedural nomination; I am neutral. PRODded in 2020 by LearnIndology (no-pinged; TBANned and inactive) for reason It is just a social media slang and not enough scholarly sources are available for this term. Instead

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and India. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|she) 00:39, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• It's non-trivial to consider, but fairly obvious.
  Hindi belt, the fact that this should be a redirect, and the redirect target, seem plainly indicated by how subject experts have documented this. Uncle G (talk) 01:20, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply
  ]
  • Reddy, Kovuuri G. (2015). Handbook of Journalism and Media: India, Bharat, Hindustan. Vikas Publishing House.
    ISBN 9789325982383
    .
  • Harrison, Selig S. (2015). India: The Most Dangerous Decades. Princeton Legacy Library. Vol. 2233. Princeton University Press.
    ISBN 9781400877805
    .
  • West, Barbara A. (2010). "Hindi". Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania. Infobase Publishing.
    ISBN 9781438119137
    . so-called Hindi belt or cow belt
• Keep this is notable enough. बिनोद थारू (talk) 00:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to
  GNG, with only passing mentions in sources and no focused discussion. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:18, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply
  ]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting, User:Uncle G you say it's fairly obvious but it's not despite your admirable investigation. I gather you want to turn this page into a Redirect but to what redirect target? The one proposed in the nominator's statement or to the previous redirect target? Or another one entirely?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:24, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Question: Is this not just an alternative name for the Hindi Belt? Is there something I'm missing here? — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 01:26, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The term seems to be used interchangeably in some contexts, but is typically used to refer to a particular region that is a subset of the Hindi belt. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:03, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Just to be clear, although I thought that the quotation and the fact that I said that they were synonyms made it obvious, per
  Hindi heartland, including Delhi and Chhattisgarh, and the BIMARU states, not including those. But that's another discussion, about two other pages. Uncle G (talk) 09:17, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply
  ]
• Redirect to
  within the article with broader scope that provides more context rather than forking it out into its own article. Sources are describing the two as alternative names for one another, and I'm not really seeing the nominated article as being about the (oft-)pejorative title, so I think we've essentially got duplicate article subjects at the moment. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 13:33, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply
  ]

  In response to Liz's relisting comment below, I'm OK with BIMARU states, though I do think Hindi Belt is more precise. I'd be fine hashing out this nuance at RfD. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 01:44, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Let's please not send this back to RfD, this AfD was only opened because of an RfD. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 01:47, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]