This is a collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Central Asia. It is one of many deletion lists coordinated by WikiProject Deletion sorting. Anyone can help maintain the list on this page.

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Further information

For further information see Wikipedia's deletion policy and WP:AfD for general information about Articles for Deletion, including a list of article deletions sorted by day of nomination.

This list is also part of the larger list of deletion debates related to Asia.

Archived discussions (starting from September 2007) may be found at:

• WikiProject Deletion sorting/Central Asia/archive

Qing Campaign in Fergana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Quite the same case as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghaznavid conquest of Multan—totally WP:LLM'd [1]. However, I must say that some coverage exists and it's possibly not a hoax, but this topic can only be properly handled through WP:TNT. – Garuda ^Talk! 22:41, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, History, Military, China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. – Garuda ^Talk! 22:41, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: WP:TNT, unsalvageable "article" "written" by an AI chatbot. JavaHurricane 06:18, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• delete WP:TNT. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:26, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete LLM hallucinations have no place in an encyclopedia. Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 09:55, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Delete The good news is that, at least, Beyond the Pass Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 is a real book and James Millward is a real person. Since that's the principal English language source cited it means there might conceivably be a basis for an article like this one to exist. However, as pervasive LLM usage would mean manually checking every single reference to see whether it is supported by the book, as other citations look difficult to verify since they're written in Russian (if they exist) and as it's pretty much just a stub anyway, I find the WP:TNT argument compelling. Blow it up and start over. Simonm223 (talk) 14:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:TNT. It's not realistic for us to try to check whether the information in the article is supported by the offline sources cited by the LLM. The sole online source doesn't include the word "Fergana" and is focused on a later period of Chinese history. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 15:09, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Qing Campaign in Fergana (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Quite the same case as Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghaznavid conquest of Multan—totally WP:LLM'd [2]. However, I must say that some coverage exists and it's possibly not a hoax, but this topic can only be properly handled through WP:TNT. – Garuda ^Talk! 22:41, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, History, Military, China, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. – Garuda ^Talk! 22:41, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: WP:TNT, unsalvageable "article" "written" by an AI chatbot. JavaHurricane 06:18, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• delete WP:TNT. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:26, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete LLM hallucinations have no place in an encyclopedia. Sumanuil. _{(talk to me)} 09:55, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Delete The good news is that, at least, Beyond the Pass Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 is a real book and James Millward is a real person. Since that's the principal English language source cited it means there might conceivably be a basis for an article like this one to exist. However, as pervasive LLM usage would mean manually checking every single reference to see whether it is supported by the book, as other citations look difficult to verify since they're written in Russian (if they exist) and as it's pretty much just a stub anyway, I find the WP:TNT argument compelling. Blow it up and start over. Simonm223 (talk) 14:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:TNT. It's not realistic for us to try to check whether the information in the article is supported by the offline sources cited by the LLM. The sole online source doesn't include the word "Fergana" and is focused on a later period of Chinese history. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 15:09, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Andrei Arapov (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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No evidence of notability. Lacks reliable sources as well. I believe this fails WP:GNG. Limmidy (talk) 02:33, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Computing, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Canada. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 03:30, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: [1], [3], [4], [5] have no evidence of reliability as sources; they are corporate sites or low quality blogs. [2] is a WP:PRIMARY interview and I could not source anything that could support notability online or at newspapers.com. Non-notable BLP. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 18:32, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: I could not find sufficient sourcing to establish the notability of this subject. HyperAccelerated (talk) 22:23, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Man seen to be doing his job. No indication of signifiance. Fails WP:SIGCOV. scope_creep^Talk 08:45, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]