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Lankapalle Agraharam
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I have nominated the article for deletion because it does not fulfill the requirements given in Notability.

Additionally, there are no references about its content: We do not have any historical evidence to prove how old this village is. They claim that they got rhis information from their grandparents. The total population of this village is about 600. The other family who owns sizable property is Gogineni Srisailam and his siblings. Elaprolu Vishnu Vardhan Rao is has promoted a successful company. It is believed that this temple is more than 70 years Those statements are all unreferenced. Please read Verifiability.

Finally, statements like: People are generally very friendly and very cooporative. Are not objective and should be avioded. You might want to read Neutral_point_of_view to learn why.

PS. When you are using non-english terms, it may be a good idea to make them links to Wikipedia pages that explain their meaning (if there is none, than create a stub page with a short explanation). --The Fifth Horseman 15:03, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

How you can improve the article
I've looked on it, and here's a few pointers for you:
 * "No historical evidence" is a problem, but you can circumvent it by looking for earliest mention of the village in official records of any sort. Then you can say "The earliest record of Lankapalle Agraraham can be found in..." and name that source.
 * The information about exact population of the village should be available in the records stored in its town hall (or equivalent). This is also a good place to look for any information that may point to the date of its founding and events of importance.
 * A general outline of the known history of the village is most suitable, but please remember to provide verifiable reference for that information whenever possible.

You might want to look at Wikipedia entries for other cities as examples on how you can change the article to improve it, for example Jaggayyapeta or Koyyuru.--The Fifth Horseman 10:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)