Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kalka–Barmer Express

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 keep. Tone 18:05, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:NOTTRAVEL, The article is about a general train. Non-notable. Fails WP:GNG. Nominating after PROD removed. Zoodino (talk) 10:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Zoodino (talk) 10:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Zoodino (talk) 10:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. I'm at a loss to work out why this express service (not train) is any less notable than any of the other 1,037 articles in Category:Express trains in India. It makes no sense whatsoever to delete individual articles piecemeal like this. Either all of them are notable or none (or almost none) of them are. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:46, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Category Category:Express trains in India has 20 sub categories and 1038 entries, most of which are either very close to this page's format or exactly like this page. I sampled 20 Express trains from this category at random, they are no different from this page. There are recent notability discussions on Named trains in India. I suspect the notability discussions will evolve on the talk pages to Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian railways to including Express Passenger trains in India, all of which have nameboards on the Guard's Van. Deleting this will only open 1038 cans of worms. We need to evolve the notability on Indian Railways and their Express services.   --Whiteguru (talk) 10:53, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Its an important article in the indian railways train service series. It shouldn't be deleted for this reasons ive found more references on that from finding on google for launching and incident news etc. Feroze Ahmad 2 (talk) 14:04, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep There are roughly 1500 articles on specific Indian trains. This being a long-distance Express train falls right in the criteria of majority of them. While I do agree that WP:Other stuff exists should not be applied for only a handful of examples, when there are 1500+ examples and most of them for many years, it makes sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roller26 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Until a comprehensive discussion takes place. Named trains and long-distance trains of India do get news coverage during flag off, route diversion etc. Verifiability also does not seem to be an issue here. --Ab207 (talk) 16:53, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep per the above. No reason to kill this article. GenQuest ^{"Talk to Me"} 19:07, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This is an WP:RUNOFTHEMILL unnamed train, where the "name" is basically just "[Where train starts]-[Where train ends] Express". Most of these types of articles were only made by a few editors, which isn't consensus. While named trains can be notable, this typically isn't true for unnamed ones. We don't create articles for the hourly service between London Waterloo and Poole or the daily Jinan to Kunming service, which are both also unnamed. If we do write about them, it's generally on their parent railway line or company, not in a new article. A search on Google News only gave result about an attempt to derail the train, but the rest is WP:ROUTINE coverage about train delays and cancellations. Jumpytoo Talk 21:35, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - A major service linking multiple major Indian cities. Oakshade (talk) 04:33, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.