Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Indian castes
per . Wait, what, you say?  is a cause for cleanup, not a cause for deletion. Ah, but in this case, the mere existence of an incomplete article will necessarily violate . This is because there is no definitive source on castes, nor, for that matter, much high quality, modern scholarship on it, primarily because the "official" stance in India is that the system no longer exists so everything would be better if we all just stopped talking about it. But, of course, the castes did "once" exist, and, as a simple examination of modern Indian life and politics will show, still very much do exist. So, we have to talk about them in some way. The problem is, lacking a good, clear list means that we will necessarily be cobbling together a whole variety of sources, each of which will be of varying quality. Furthermore, there will certainly be disagreements among sources (for those not in the know, "caste" is not a term with a universally agreed upon meaning, and Group X might be a "caste" to one author and a "sub-caste" or "tribe" to another). These are disagreements that cannot be adequately accounted for in a list. Further-furthermore, there will necessarily be "missing" groups; these are groups of living people, and their existence or non-existence in a given "grouping" can have significant consequences. Without the ability to provide good, solid sources and examine the details, we will necessarily unbalanced. Categories are fine, because they simply involve a way to organize information on the back end. But a list necessarily carries weight and authority. Since we cannot create the list responsibly (i.e., neutrally), we should not have the list at all
— User:Qwyrxian, 06:15, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOV||WP:NPOV||WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)