Deletion of List of Tarkhans (Sikh)

Comment: The criteria for inclusion are sufficiently narrow and clear. Moreover, I think sourcing could be found that treats Tarkhans ''as a group'', e.g. http://books.google.ae/books?id=L1RGX3whGEIC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=tarkhans&source=bl&ots=OSifDWaFA1&sig=50xLnUknYZe1FbWO9EMdrCYKtVs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_eWAUOqmBcO8rAf_94CwBw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=tarkhans&f=false this book, which is required under . People arguing delete above have not argued that Tarkhans are non-notable as a group, which is the threshold for list notability per : "A list topic is considered notable if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources, per the above guidelines; notable list topics are appropriate for a stand-alone list." Some people for deletion have also used the fact that people on the list do not have Wikipedia articles as a basis for removal. This is not a valid argument under : "Because the group or set is notable, the individual items in the list do not need to be independently notable, although editors may, at their discretion, choose to limit large lists by only including entries for independently notable items or those with Wikipedia articles." In any event, it appears that some of the people on the list are notable and have articles but simply were not wikilinked. Hence in view of the fact that secondary reliable sources could establish the Tarkhans as a group, it meets  and  and should be kept
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:LISTN||WP:LISTN||WP:LISTN||WP:LISTN||WP:GNG)

Comment: I will |assume good faith about this nomination, and therefore say that the specified grounds for it are one of the worst cases of not doing  that I can remember. While lists often need not be navigational aids, this is one that almost certainly should be - but, of the names without links currently in the article, three are clearly meant to refer to Zail Singh, Ajay Devgn and Sobha Singh (painter), and a fourth probably to Joginder Singh (rally driver). Moreover, several (though apparently by no means all) of the names the nominator removed from the article before nominating it also have Wikipedia articles - indeed, in a couple of cases, they were actually given as references. No good as references, of course, but they would be perfectly good wikilinks. The article could therefore be converted into a list of notable individuals with very little difficulty. The reason my keep is conditional is that currently there is no clearly cited evidence either in this article or in most of the articles on the listed individuals that the people concerned are (or were) indeed Tarkhans (often it doesn't seem even to be mentioned). However, in each case I have looked at, the claim that they are (were) Tarkhans is at least plausible, and I think it very likely that this will be verifiable for enough of them to make the list keepable
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Assume good faith (WP:AGF||WP:BEFORE)