Wikipedia:Featured and good topic candidates/South India/archive1: Difference between revisions

South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India’s area (635,780 km² or 245,480 sq mi) and 20% of India’s population. South India has the largest combined largest gross domestic product compared to other regions in India.

A significant geographic and economic region of India, where 4 of the 5 largest cities (1 FA, 3 GA), in addition to 3 states and 1 Union territory (all GAs) can be listed. This is a Good Topic nomination. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:34, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• This is an impressive body of work, but I don’t see how it meets the “There are no obvious gaps” criteria. It could possibly be made with all states and territories, and then perhaps all capitals, but not a mixture of both. CMD (talk) 14:52, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose – This is a cherry-pick of all the recognized articles in what is a pretty vague topic, failing criteria 1.d. It’s missing key states and territories like Puducherry, Telangana and Karnataka, as well as countless cities. In my opinion, the inclusion criteria of the topic should be more specific; i.e. States and Union territories of South India; but even so, it would still require much more work. Idiosincrático (talk) 19:47, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Chipmunkdavis @Idiosincrático Would you both be better convinced if I made it only the 4 cities listed? Apologies if this does not work, this is my first Good Topic nom so I’m still trying to understand the criteria and how it works. 🙂~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:32, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  The criteria to focus on are “The articles or lists have a clear similarity with each other under a well-defined topical scope”/”All articles or lists in the topic are linked together, preferably using a template, and share a common category or super-category” (those two work somewhat as a pair) and “There are no obvious gaps (missing or low-quality articles) in the topic. A topic must not cherry-pick only the best articles to become featured together”. In short, the overall topic needs to be something that can be clearly broken down into a complete list of subtopics, and all those subtopics must be present. “South India” is a very broad topic, reading about four cities would probably not cover the reading needed to understand the whole region. CMD (talk) 14:22, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]