The result was no consensus. With the varying opinions on how to handle these pages—from deleting them all, keeping them all, keep the ones a certain editor is working on, keep the ones that are maintained, merge them all into the related outline pages, etc.—we've got ourselves an unmanageable WP:TRAINWRECK. Editors may want to consider other options in spirit of WP:ATD; perhaps smaller bundled or individual nominations where necessary. These indices are not absent of issues as pointed out in the discussion, but this mass nomination can not adequately address them. ✗ plicit 13:03, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
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A recent series of AfDs, such as Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Index_of_Myanmar-related_articles_(2nd_nomination), reached agreement to delete this redundant and unmaintainable system of index articles about countries and territories. The most commonly cited concerns are that navigation is already provided by navboxes, categories, and lists with narrower scope, including outline articles like Outline of Turkmenistan; and that most countries and territories have a large number of associated articles — for example, even the Vatican City has about 2,000 articles indexed by its associated WikiProject. Most of these are exactly like the previously nominated lists, but any exceptional cases should be noted if you find one. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 08:37, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
General comments:
A lot of these articles have lists, which can be split to a list of lists or merged with the respective outline. Merge any external links like "Articles with (country name) in title" or "Atlas of (country name)"(Commons link) etc to outlines or the country articles where appropriate. I also think that they could be redirected to the respective outlines, if there are no issues with that. Some have redlinks which I guess can be added to the lists of requested articles, if nonexistent. A few have external links to Wikipedias in the language(s) of the countries, would there be any use in moving that to the respective outline pages? A few have sidebars, with the Soviet Union one having all the related sidebars I assume , would there be any use in moving something like that to the outline pages? Depending on this nomination's results, a cleanup of Lists of country-related topics will be needed, as well as navboxes that link to these indices. Dege31 ( talk) 11:11, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
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talk) 02:23, 21 February 2022 (UTC)For any indexes that are well-developed or where editors are currently maintaining them, I support retention. Keep Index of Armenia-related articles, Index of Singapore-related articles, and Index of Vatican City–related articles as they are maintained.
Below I have proposed where the pages are redirected to as an alternative to deletion. If there are better pages to redirect to (such as outlines or other lists), then I support that instead.