Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oushadhi


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The result was   keep. Cirt (talk) 14:30, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Oushadhi

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Does not appear to demonstrate any notability. A medicinal manufacturing company in Kerala seemingly associated with the State. Being founded in 1941 does not make it notable, IMO. SGGH ping! 14:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  —  Salih  ( talk ) 15:17, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Oushadhi, as an Kerala government owned company, had played an important role in the Kerala health sector. As a company promoted by Kerala government, it provides medicines to the poor and needy people in a marginal rate. This has kept big multi-national medicine companies from charging high price. There is no government in any part of the world which have a medicine company under thier control. This shows government of Kerala's effort to secure the medicine supply to the Kerala people. So in that context, it plays a big role in Kerala economy by giving needy medicines.

So please don't delete it and just see through the lens of Kerala economy, but not on a corporate angle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpullokaran (talk • contribs) 15:29, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you quantify such claims with reliable sources? If so, it might make a difference. SGGH ping! 15:42, 9 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment no news related to this subject. searched google news and 0 results found. No citations to claims either. Cablespy (talk) 15:36, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Did you actually search the gnews? Salih  ( talk ) 16:23, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * This actually gets 54 hits from Google News, not zero. Just click on the news link at the top of the article to confirm this.


 * Keep as it does seem to satisfy WP:Corp. At least this information can be added to Kerala. There is widespread coverage in Indian newspapers (general and business), , , , , , , , . It is a state run pharma company.--Sodabottle (talk) 15:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

The main reason why there were no articles in news is because the government don't allow companies to sponsor any programmes or advertising. The company is accountable to the Kerala people and any penny spend on advertising is much of waste. Because Ayurveda is a service and people want to have faith in it. It is very easy to sell a soap or detergent in a market by advertising. But you can't sell a ayurveda product in a market with out much faith. Most of the ayurveda companies in Kerala is decades old. They have a histoty of 300 years. Jomy Jos Pullokaran 16:58, 9 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jpullokaran (talk • contribs)
 * Keep. The Google Books, News and Scholar links at the top of the article lead to many independent reliable sources, satisfying notability guidelines. Is it really too much to expect deletion nominators to take a few seconds to look at the search results that are spoon-fed to them by the AfD templates before they save the discussion page? Phil Bridger (talk) 21:59, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you know what WP:AGF means. SGGH ping! 15:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep There is a large surplus of reliable sources showing notability. And yes, nominators really should look at the search results first before nominating. See WP:BEFORE. Priyanath talk 05:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
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