Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dhalla Mahamatra


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   no consensus, seeing as nobody has seen fit to contribute to this AFD after its relisting. Stifle (talk) 11:54, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Dhalla Mahamatra

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Notability and existence of alleged person. I can find no evidence and there has been a "cite please" since 2007.  ناهدundefined(dAnāhita)  undefined 07:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep -- As per Dhalla Mahamatra, I find it very hard to say whether it is vandalism or not, but having a good knowledge of sanskrit,I can say that the poem Matulchandra is not nonsense and I have seen it before. Eliza Dolots (talk) 15:17, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Eliza, can you provide a translation for Matulchandra? I listed it for translation, although really it would be a replacement given the present state. I am also concerned that you were implicated as a sockpuppet in re: Kampfer Schnozz and your contribution depth is five edits despite a demonstrable use of advanced wikipedia skills...  ناهدundefined(dAnāhita)  undefined 15:59, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I could only translate a small portion of it as the words are written very carelessly in English, and I cannot make out where I should split the Sandhis due to this. And sometimes, if the sandhis are split at the wrong place, a totally different meaning emerges from it. I request the creator of the article to rewrite it using Devanagari. And as per my supposed sock - puppet vandalism, it is my little brother who vandalises wikipedia. Eliza Dolots (talk) 05:05, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I can't find any evidence of this person either, or the children listed in the article, or the poem mentioned, Matulchandra. Suggest we also delete Matulchandra as fruit of the poisonous tree. Mr. Vernon (talk) 08:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment - I'm frankly rather reluctant to delete an article about an alleged 2d century BC Sanskrit poet on the grounds of a minimal presence on Google. "Mahamatra" is not nonsense; it means "great in height", and was used of both officials and elephant drivers.  Has anyone attempted a search in Devanagari or some other appropriate non-Latin alphabet? - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:24, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, you might have missed out on the edit I did removing uncited claims he was a magical psychic who foretold the end of the world in agreement with Nostradamus & al. - it was after doing that that I thought, why is this person with no wikipresence, no cites for ages, and no apparent record anywhere even on Wikipedia? My thought is that it is New Age invented foolishness.  ناهدundefined(dAnāhita)  undefined 15:47, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't look at the history that extensively. It looks to me mostly like an article that has gotten very little attention or traffic, that various vandals have added nonsense to.   Whether the entire article is nonsense is hard for me to say - only noting that Google, for various reasons, may not know about him. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 16:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - The only notable Dhalla found on a quick gsearch is a Dr. Dhall who is a zoroastrian. I failed to find any mention of him in my personal Buddhist collection, FWIW.Pectoretalk 19:49, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  JForget  23:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.