Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Puttur, Tamil Eelam

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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 Keep per consensus PeaceNT 06:34, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Puttur,_Tamil_Eelam

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This article is non-notable, POV plus so poorly written that it makes no sense. It's an article about a place but instead focuses on an educational establishments located there. Additionally, it has an advertisement requesting some university alumni to contact somebody. Qwertyca 00:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep. All towns are notable. I removed the request that alumni contact someone by e-mail and added the latitude and longitude. Google has several references to reports of atrocities that are said have taken place in or near Puttur. I would like someone to add the material that usually appears in an article about a town: year of establishment, population, name of the mayor, local industries and infrastructure. And I suspect the article should be renamed Puttur, Sri Lanka since the boundaries of the area controlled by the LTTE are continually shifting. --Eastmain 00:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I have been bold and renamed the article per established WP convention. I have also added a reference to the existence of the town; the rest of the article remains unsourced, but all extant towns are notable even if there's nothing much going on there. Carlossuarez46 02:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. I believe that this town, site of the first free school in SL, would qualify as notable, not just for the school, mind you. Ohconfucius 03:31, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, but delete references to non-existent place of "Tamil Eelam" (including the redirect Puttur, Tamil Eelam) and other uncited content. I'm yet to find a citation that it housed the first free school in Sri Lanka, so if not cited that bit should probably be deleted, but I guess that's beside the point of the AFD. --snowolfD4( talk / @ ) 14:46, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong keep as towns are inherently notable. Serious clean-up is needed, though. "Tamil Eelam" apparently refers to the Tamil breakaway region in the northern Sri Lanka. Since the state is not internationally recognized, the town should be considered as a part of Sri Lanka.— JyriL talk 23:19, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Actual town where people live, work and call home. Inherently "notable." --Oakshade 07:56, 18 April 2007 (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.