Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blathur

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep and cleanup (non-admin closure). EJF (talk) 19:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blathur

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Notability - this village is non notable, and the page itself is written in a NPOV. Its a graffiti page... speedy delete please. Thanks. ^T/_@Sniperz11 _edits^sign 21:05, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Keep All villages are inherently notable; vandalism can simply be cleaned up. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 21:10, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• By the way, I think you mean not written in NPOV, since that means "neutral point of view". Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 21:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Keep Villages are notable, but the article needs some major cleanup and a rewrite. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 21:14, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• Comment there's no information on this village from the Census of India website, which is quite comprehensive and Google Maps doesn't know it. Does it exist? I think it might, but I'm not sure. Neutral because I'd kicked this page to Sniperz for his assistance in clean up. Travellingcari (talk) 21:15, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
  • ETA: This article was the sole contribution of a like-named editor. Travellingcari (talk) 21:31, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep and clean up. This article verifies the existence of the village and villages are generally held to be notable if their existence can be verified. Davewild (talk) 21:43, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep and Move to Blathur, Kerala State, add "India" if need be.

the place does exist according the the information I've got. Mandsford (talk) 21:59, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

• Comment here's a bit more including some form of code. I don't know where to start with this one since I'm not sure what we'd make a stub of. It's odd for a town that's a "stronghold" per the article Davewild/Mandsford found has so little coverage. I don't know if there are possibly Malayam articles -- can't tell since that's not a Google option to search in. Travellingcari (talk) 22:07, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
• Keep The village is notable, however, the article is in bad state and needs to be rewritten. Dr. A. Salih (talk) 10:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
• Comment - The main problem here, even though the village is obviously notable is the lack of information available. In fact, the Census of India Data and the official website of Kannur district dont even list Blathur. However, State Bank of Travancore has a branch in Blathur and has shown that on their Branch list. Please help by providing any information on the village. Thanks. ^T/_@Sniperz11 _edits^sign 13:22, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

• Procedural Question - and I'm already familiar with 'villages are inherently notable', 'OSE' and its variants and precedent, so this is separate from that. Even with every Wikipedian doing his/her best on familiar areas , there is *no way* we're ever going to have an article on every map dot in the world. My question is why keep this article on precedent when we frequently hear the discussion, consider each article based on its own, not a list of precedents. Admittedly that's often used when people want to keep Article X when similar articles have been deleted or don't exist, but I see that appplying here. If the official government site (census) and larger area (Kannur) don't find it worthy of mention, where are we going to find verifiable sources? Further, how is it ever going to be an article? I could see it gaining notoroety in the future and *then* an article being created but I don't see the point in having an essentially empty article (created by a CoI possibly for his/her own map dot) just because villages "are notable". I'm still officially neutral, but I'm curious to answers to the question. I don't think this is a bias issue since the same could be said for mapdots anywhere in the world. Travellingcari (talk) 12:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• procedural query Why is there no afd tag on the article? Does this invaidate the AfD? --Paularblaster (talk) 23:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I've added the tag ^T/_@Sniperz11_edits^sign 00:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.