Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Ezhava Tharavads


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The result was delete.  Sango 123  15:44, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

List of Ezhava Tharavads
The listing is unencyclopedic, and unverifiable (per User:Deepujoseph). -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 07:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete - Since I was the one who had originally prod'd the article, I must outline my reasons more specifically here. The article tries to list families belonging to the Ezhava caste of Hinduism. There are thousands of such families in India, and hence it is totally un-encyclopedic to have such a listing. The references given does not substantiate the claims, hence the article fails on verifiablity too. Moreover, Wikipedia is not a genealogical database. Also see the related AfD for List of Nair Tharavadus here-- thund e rboltz(Deepu) 08:11, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It's probably hazardous to even begin to comment on this without a background on the subject, but I feel it worth pointing out that there are hundreds of pages on Wikipedia that serve the sole purpose of being redlink graveyards for caste family names. I think it's a big problem on the English Wikipedia, and one that would take an even bigger amount of work (and ad nauseum discouragement) to solve. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 17:16, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete (per User:Deepujoseph).Clt13 10:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Serves no purpose other than indulging the smug fancy of some casteists. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kuntan (talk • contribs).
 * Delete per nom. Markovich292 23:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


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