Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battles fought by Sikhs

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The result was redirect to Battles involving the Sikh Empire. Seems to be a useful search term, nominate at WP:RFD if you disagree. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:38, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Battles fought by Sikhs

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Fails WP:LISTN and WP:GNG. The criteria for inclusion is unclear as I'm sure there were even Sikhs involved in WW2, for example. It's not as well defined as the similar list Battles involving the Sikh Empire. Spiderone 13:23, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sikhism-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 13:26, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - This appears to be a list based on nothing more than Religion/Ethnic Origin. As the nomination says, it fails the GNG and its inclusion criteria aren't clear. Exemplo347 (talk) 14:27, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete -- inclusion criteria not well defined. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:01, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. It wouldn't be possible to develop sensible inclusion criteria here, not least as Sikh individuals have fought alongside people from other faiths on many, many occasions - often as part of mixed-faith military forces. This seems to be an attempt to present Sikhs as somehow being an always-separate group, which of course is total nonsense. Nick-D (talk) 21:55, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The topic is already covered in Battles involving the Sikh Empire, perhaps the creator of the article was not aware of its existence.--Catlemur (talk) 21:58, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - There seems to be a lot of lists relating to things in the subcontinent by religion/ethnicity (see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Muslim_presidents_of_Indian_National_Congress). It seems to me there is interest in such lists, but I don't think they fit wikipedia guidelines. In this case, though, Battles involving the Sikh Empire covers a good deal of what will be removed, and much of the rest is a bit OR. Smmurphy^(Talk) 03:18, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
REdirect to Battles involving the Sikh Empire. This will have the effect of purging the article of battles where Sikhs were part of forces under British (or other) command. Peterkingiron (talk) 10:48, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the user below; the Sikh Empire and Sikhs, in general, are different things. The Sikh Empire is limited to a specific time in history whereas Sikhs are still in armed forces today I imagine. Spiderone 16:43, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete -Inclusion criteria is ill defined.Sikhs had and continue to fight as part of numerous multi-faith forces. The proposal to redirect also does not hold.Sikhs are not equal to the Sikh Empire! The ambit and scope of the article is too vat and non-definite.Light^{❯❯❯ Saber} 14:19, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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