Talk:Bodhipathapradīpa

This text is notable in the Buddhist tradition. As Buddhism is the one of the largest growing spiritual traditions in the world, the notability of its salient texts is significant. A specific number of Google returns is not a measure of notability: especially when the text is known by a number of different names, with different orthographic representations. Importantly, a specific Google search of the Sanskrit with diacritics returned 2,940 hits which questions the searching parameters of the editor that placed the tag for deletion. It is my considered opinion, that a search engine return of specific occurrences of an item is a flawed and biased measure of notability. I have not deleted the tag for deletion and will leave that to the Community to determine.
Svaha
B9 hummingbird hovering^{(talk • contribs)} 01:33, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's an entirely valid reason to contest the proposed deletion, and I have accordingly removed it. Jfire (talk) 07:02, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But unless and until it answers the two questions that I put on the Prod2 template ("What is it? What makes it important?"), it will be particularly vulnerable for deletion at AfD. The version of the article that I read earlier today did not make an attempt to answer even the first question. B.Wind (talk) 07:29, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and I've added a small bit hopefully towards establishing notability; I'm not familiar w/ this text but Atisha is "Kind of a Big Deal", to be sure, and if this is his Magnum Opus, chances are it's notable - but yes, more refs and more article content needed. Zero sharp (talk) 07:46, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]