Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ancient history of Bangladesh

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POV fork of History of Bengal and content copied from elsewhere based on synthesis and misrepresentation of sources, this topic fails WP:GNG, there is no such thing as "Ancient Bangladesh", Bangladesh did not even exist as a polity prior to 1971, "the ancient history of Bangladesh" is a ridiculous neologism and an oxymoron that no scholarly source supports. All sources are referring to the region of Bengal, not Bangladesh. WP:TNT applies. Nxcrypto Message 15:14, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Military, Hinduism, Asia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, India, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. Nxcrypto Message 15:14, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

:After looking at all of your edits on the Ancient history of Bangladesh I have noticed how you keep on mentioning 'POV' and how you believe I am POV pushing but even after reading Wikipedias page of POV pushing I can't quite seem to understand how I am POV pushing and unless I am mistaken, this page is within Wikipedia guidelines.

:Regarding your claim of the page being a fork of the History of Bengal, you are mistaken. This page covers the history coinciding with the political borders of Bangladesh, today. This excludes the modern state of West Bengal and other parts of Bengal which are not within the confines of Bangladesh's border such as Tripura or the Barak Valley. Many pages have been published in this format for example the List of wars involving Bangladesh or History of Bangladesh or History of Bangladesh (1971–present) all of which do not include information for events occurring outside today's modern borders. This page also lacks information concerning specific kingdoms and events unique to the present day state of West Bengal such as the Suhma kingdom. As a sidenote I would like to add that I am open and happy to merge this article with the History of Bangladesh.GtAM6 (talk) 17:25, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

• Delete - Per nomination, I also note that GtAM6 has tried to merge the entire article into already large History of Bangladesh [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Bangladesh&diff=prev&oldid=1270133005], perhaps in an attempt to bypass the impending deletion of this article.- Ratnahastin (talk) 02:20, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

• Delete: per nom, concept of "Ancient Bangladesh" is anachronistic and unsupported by scholarly sources. CelesteQuill (talk) 11:01, 18 January 2025 (UTC)— CelesteQuill (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. {{#if:|There's an SPI at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/{{{spi}}}.{{sp}}|}}

• Delete Horrible display of pseudohistory. Agletarang (talk) 14:20, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. Per nom RangersRus (talk) 15:38, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
• Keep Nominator's rationale is unclear. If there is a POV or content dispute, where is the discussion in the talk page? AfD is not a way to resolve a dispute. This article also doesn't seem to be on a neologism, rather about the ancient history of the place that is now called Bangladesh. The scope looks very clear to me and I don't see any reason to delete. The rest of the delete !votes seem to be "just votes" with one even being a WP:SPA. That makes it hard to assume good faith about the motivations behind this nomination. LucrativeOffer (talk) 17:57, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
• :Quite satisfactory to me. I don't find any source covering "Ancient history of Bangladesh," then why should a stand-alone article exist? How the scope is clear if the entity is nowhere close to "Ancient"? Garuda ^Talk! 20:26, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete: Fails WP:GNG, The Topic (History of “Ancient Bangladesh”) is not mentioned in any of the sources (hence it's WP:OR). Koshuri Sultan (talk) 18:03, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete as per nomination, OR, WP:TNT, and because it's not even wrong. This is a fork of History of Bengal, filled with fringe ideas, and an ahistorical title. It's like creating an article on Ancient history of Canada. In 2025, everybody knows we have never intentionally published original research. Even a new editor should know. Bearian (talk) 04:54, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

• Delete: per nomination. Behappyyar (talk) 14:53, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

• Delete - We have no article even on "Ancient history of India". Creating an article on "Ancient history of Bangladesh" is even more pointless. REDISCOVERBHARAT (talk) 15:42, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete: Fails WP:GNG. There is no independent coverage on the so called "Ancient history of Bangladesh". A poor WP:POVFORK mess. Garuda ^Talk! 20:30, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete - per nominator's rationale. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 12:34, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

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