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[edit] speedies

Please check recent discussion at AfD-- Full professors at major universities are almost always found notable there--they invariably have published much work recognized as notable by their peers. You may disagree, but such has been the consensus--I can not recall one deletion in the last 8 months. In any case, according to WP:CSD, speedy is for articles with no claim to notability, and any bona-fide claim is sufficient--saying one is a professor anywhere is such a claim--so is saying someone has written a book, etc. The reason is that more than 1 or 2 people should see these cases just in case somebody with only one book actually is notable, etc. If you think the claims to notability insufficient, and the article has been abandoned, then WP:Prod is the way to go. If you think it will be defended, then WP:AFD, DGG (talk) 18:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

as a further guide, associate professors are sometimes notable--it depends on the amount of published works, and a convenient way to check is to use Google Scholar, keeping in mind that coverage is relatively weak for India. I want to encourage you to continue nominating academic, poets, and so on whom you think not notable for deletion by prod and afd. But speedy is a narrow category. By the way, it can be used only for those sorts of things specified in WP:CSD--people, web content, bands, companies. Not languages. DGG (talk) 18:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kamala Devi

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[edit] September 2007

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that recently you carried out a copy and paste page move from Kamala Devi. Please do not move articles by copying and pasting them because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself using the move link at the top of the page, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. Hut 8.5 18:27, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Please don't remove the tag I put there. It needs to remain in place until the issue is sorted by an administrator. Hut 8.5 18:30, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
When you move a page, you are supposed to click on "move" at the top of the page (next to "history"). This will preserve the page's edit history, which is required to comply with Wikipedia's license. The cut-and-paste move you did did not preserve the edit history and needs to be rectified. Someone needs to delete the page Kamala Devi and then move Kamala devi to the new title Kamala Devi, which will turn Kamala devi into a redirect. I can't do this myself because you need to be an administrator, so I put a tag on the page requesting that an administrator do it. Hut 8.5 18:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poets on the IWE page

Good idea. --Relata refero (disp.) 20:42, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Indian poets

G'day. I note that you have reverted my deletion of a swag of redlinks from the above article. It is not normal to leave redlinks as 'place holders' in case someone eventually writes an article. If these poets are notable then articles will be written about them and then they can be listed. Leaving large quantities of redlinks leads to significant vandalism where people just add their names to the list. Notability is impossible to discover from such lists. I will leave your revert for a few weeks and if articles are not written about the language group of poets you 'saved' I'll delete them. Gillyweed (talk) 23:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)