Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dhaka Prakash


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The result was speedy keep. Withdrawn by nominator with only keep !votes from others. (non-admin closure) AleatoryPonderings (talk) 21:56, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Dhaka Prakash

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There is no reliable source available in support of the claim made in the stub. The existence of the news paper is only mentioned in other wikis which are not reliable. There are no mention about this news paper anywhere else. Chiro725 (talk) 20:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn by nominator As perWorldbruce, I could not check other language sources. Also did not know that Banglapedia is not wiki. I think the nomination was not justified after getting the detailed explanation by him. Thank you --Chiro725 (talk) 21:28, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Chiro725 (talk) 20:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. Chiro725 (talk) 20:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 21:19, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


 * speedy keep Banglapedia, despite the similarity in name to Wikipedia and the fact that their most recent online version uses MediaWiki as its content management system, is not a wiki in the sense that the nomintator thinks. You and I can't edit it; it is not user-generated content. It's an online copy of the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, published by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. It has been through two print editions in the past two decades, edited by some of the country's top scholars. The particular article in question is written by Muntassir Mamoon, a historian and professor at the University of Dhaka who has won the country's second highest civilian award for his work. It is a reliable source.


 * It would be nice if the article were longer and cited more sources, but that can develop from natural expansion in main space. A Google Books search for the Bengali name of the paper, "ঢাকা প্রকাশ", returns plenty of results in Bengali, including Mamoon's multi-volume work, উনিশ শতকে বামলাদেশের সংবাদ-সাময়িকপত্র [Newspapers and periodicals of Bangladesh in the nineteenth century], the third and fourth volumes of which evidently have been compiled entirely from Dhaka Prakash. The nomination was made in good faith, but is flawed, and I recommend that the nominator withdraw it. --Worldbruce (talk) 21:20, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


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