Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mrenh Gongveal: Chasing the Elves of the Khmer


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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 20:41, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Mrenh Gongveal: Chasing the Elves of the Khmer

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I am unable to uncover any secondary sources discussing this self-published photo essay. Article reads like an advertisement. Fails Notability (books). Location (talk) 13:13, 29 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. unashamedly promotional. Hurts eyes. -Roxy the dog™ (Resonate) 13:30, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Note that I've had to delete most of it as copyvio. Doug Weller (talk) 16:52, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cambodia-related deletion discussions.  SwisterTwister   talk  04:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  SwisterTwister   talk  04:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete for now as there's simply no improvement at this time. SwisterTwister   talk  04:45, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. I cannot find anything that's actually about this book. I've cleaned the article up so it wasn't overwhelmingly promotional, but the problem is that this is still non-notable. There's a distinct lack of chatter about this book in general outside of merchant sites and false hits. The only things I came up with were things published by the author or his wife, such as this blog post. Anyone have an issue with me closing this one a day early? Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:16, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The article for Mrenh Gongveal also needs to be looked at since it relies very, very heavily on this self-published source. The only things it lists other than this are the sources this author used in his article. Since we can't verify the sources, I'm going to have to consider the article original research. If I can't find something else to back it up, I'm going to PROD it. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  08:47, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've proposed it for deletion. I've asked for help from WP:CAMBODIA, but I'm somewhat leery about the page since I can't help but feel that this is all original research by the book's author. The word he says stands for this specific type of mythical being translates to just "elves" in Khmer according to Google Translate. The hits under the name and the various spellings aren't promising since the vast majority of them refer back to Kelly's book in some form or fashion. Basically, I'm not finding much to substantiate that this entity is any different from the common elf and that this isn't a term that Kelly came up with one day in order to show the difference between Cambodian elf folklore and folklore from other countries. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:14, 5 October 2015 (UTC)


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