Deletion of Indian century (3rd nomination)

Comment: There seem to be a bunch of these articles including Asian Century, Pacific Century, Chinese Century, BRICS, &c.  Doing these by individual country seems too speculative and prone to |soapy boosterism, as we have here.  Merge it into a more general article where a balanced overview will be more likely to result
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:SOAP)

Comment: Keep: I checked two sources, they were . Passes GNG. While I have sympathy for merging as there may be many notable projections, a merge can be done separately away from this AfD crash. That aside, let's not conflate -truth
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:V)

Comment: This is an absolute trainwreck of an AFD. On one hand you have a blocked sock who's nominating it and then someone else picking up the nomination after the withdraw. On the otherhand you see that  hasn't been followed and there are some clear |reliable sources that push this past . Those who are !voting merge and delete are citing the quality of the sources instead of the policies those sources are satisfying
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE||WP:RS||WP:GNG)

Comment: in addition to the reasons posted above, there is a lack of  (I am referring to the "Criticism" section of Asian Century, which this article contains none of
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)

Comment: The topic passes . Source examples include
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Sources are out-of date or do not indicate notability''? Really! otability is not temporary. If there really are some , Help:Editing|Edit the article and . eletion is not cleanup. See also, . I do not mean to invoke OSE here, but by nominator argument we really should have no article on Earth. This is just ridiculous. I'm sorry if my words read rude
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:OR||WP:FIXIT||WP:D||WP:BEFORE)

Comment: The article (also Asian Century and Chinese Century) fail .  Since about the 1980s (or even later)India and China have experienced great growth, but that is only 30 or so years ago.  WE have noi idea what may happen in the other 2/3rd of a century.  Quite clearly both countries have undergone industrialisation and urbanisation on a scale similar to UK in the Industrial Revolution and Germany 1860-1914.  If anything a title such as "the emergence of India as a great power" might cover the content and make a useful article
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:CRYSTAL)