Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuntayithote

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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 Delete. Srikeit (Talk | Email) 06:08, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kuntayithote

Non-notable place. Couldn't find a single Google reference to this name or its alternate Kuntayithode. Since no references are cited, I suspect that this article violates the Wikipedia:No original research policy. Suttungr 12:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

  • The article should be kept. Google gave you no results merely because there is no standardisation about transliterating Malayalam words or names in English. You can google Kundayithode and find at least a dozen references. There is nothing original about it and that will be later made clear. As such I can only cite certain research papers and that will be done shortly. A word about Google Fallacy: Search kozhikoad on Google and tell me how many results you get. That was how Calicut or Kozhikode or Kozhikkode or Kozhikkot was spelt for more than a century when Kozhikode Taluk was referred to. Kuntan 13:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Then can you give us the Malayalam script and some sources for it? They can be book sources too and someone can verify them. But you do need to cite sources. gren グレン 15:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep pending verification. Even small towns are notable. Google may be of small help searching for pages in Malayalam. This needs a fair amount of cleanup. - Smerdis of Tlön 16:17, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. If you check the edit history, you will see I had mixed feelings about it, before deciding it should be kept. But I think any place that exists should be in Wiki should be listed. --ArmadilloFromHell 18:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

DELETE this speaks more of one family than the place.

    • "Any place that exists" doesn't work. Notability is not a blanket. The patch of grassland to the side of my house exists, and I can point to government documents that are authoritative on the subject. It doesn't deserve an encyclopaedia article. Places that are notable are notable by dint of having lots of stuff published about them, from census reports to local history books. Uncle G 19:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
  • This place is not listed in the India 700K Project by either spelling. Yes, this place appears to exist. I can find people who put this on their mailing addresses, such as this rubber company. It's also a parish of the Syro-Malabar Church. But that's all that I can find about it. I have been unable to find a source that confirms a single sentence in this article as currently written. Uncle G 19:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep pending better sourcing on notability. Ramsquire 20:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete unless a source ascertaining its notability could be find. I am looking for a pointer to an article in a Malyalam newspaper online, a scan from an article in Malayalam magazine or some such. I can find scores of mentions online of the street where I live but that doesn't make it notable. Tintin (talk) 07:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Question The article says something about "After devastation by the flood many archeological objects which lay buried for centuries came out. The maritime artifacts suggested the existence of a busy port there." Which flood is this referring to? Earlier in the article a flood in 1963 is mentioned, but this quote is from an entierly different paragraph. I suspect, but am not certian that the flood this referrs to might be the 2004 tsunami, in which case I wonder if the place this article is talking about is the "lost city" exposed by the 2004 tsunami mentioned in this article? If so, then keep and do a drastic clean-up. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 14:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
This place has nothing to do with Tsunami. This is in the west coast of India and that side was not touched by the tsunami. The "lost city" in the east coast, some 60 km south of Chennai. Tintin (talk) 14:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
The creator of the article comments: The article was meant as an innocuous hoax. It is hightime it went. Please delete it as soon as possible. Kuntayithote is a highly non-notable place (nowadays, a busstop) off Calicut. It is not worthy of an artlcle on Wiki.Kuntan 06:05, 26 September 2006 (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.