Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. H. Salunkhe


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The result was   keep. Drmies (talk) 17:11, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

A. H. Salunkhe

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Unreferenced BLP. Laun chba  ller  22:18, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comment - Just a note that there is an entry for this guy on the Marathi Wikipedia linked under the Languages tab. Google Translate gives a pretty entertaining translation. That article seems more developed but I don't see a specific references section. EricEnfermero  HOWDY! 04:12, 6 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as unreferenced BLP - no comment on his notability, which we can't judge due to hte lack of sources. Barney the barney barney (talk) 20:20, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete No references.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:26, 10 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment The above !votes for deletion are reasonable enough as the article currently stands (though not absolute policy, given the age of the article), but will immediately fail if and when references are added. For someone largely writing in Marathi, most sources are also likely to be in Marathi, and while there are potential sources shown on the GBooks search, I am finding it difficult to judge whether they are all for the subject rather than someone of the same name. It would therefore be very valuable if a Marathi-speaking editor or someone with some knowledge of the subject could find and add suitable references, and if a second week could be allowed for this discussion, to give a better chance for this to happen. PWilkinson (talk) 11:01, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Alternatives are to WP:SOFTDELETE or to see if one can get hold of an editor from the Marathi Wikipedia.-- Laun  chba  ller  11:07, 10 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. He gets non-trivial coverage in Savant, Discovery of God (definitely the right person, one of the books metioned by Savant is in the bibliography in our article). Non-trivial coverage in Omvedt, Buddhism in India, extensive coverage in Jamanadas, Decline and Fall of Buddhism who describes him as "a prominent OBC thinker", Bhagavan in Speaking Truth to Power describes him as one of the "important recent interpreters" of Tuka (Tukaram).  I am stopping there, not because there are no more book sources to list, but because that is enough.  All this without even bothering to look for Maharathi sources which must certainly be more extensive.  I am also seeing him mentioned in Indian newspapers like Times of India and someone with access to a regional news database could probably find a lot more. SpinningSpark 16:41, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Black Kite (talk) 17:20, 13 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep based on the previous comment, there are sufficient sources. Finding them did not seem to require a knowledge of Marathi. Nominators should make a reasonable effort to look.  DGG ( talk ) 18:16, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I've added a cite to One India News for an award he received, but I doubt that that's the most notable thing about him. SpinningSpark 19:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per significant coverage in multiple sources returned by simple Google books search. See WP:BEFORE: "The minimum search expected is a Google Books search and a Google News archive search; Google Scholar is suggested for academic subjects. Such searches should in most cases take only a minute or two to perform." 24.151.10.165 (talk) 20:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - Several sources testify notability AAA3AAA (talk) 17:10, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
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