Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pamunu


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The result was soft delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:17, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Pamunu

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I could not find any sources whatsoever, failing WP:GNG. Could be redirected to Govigama, but since there is no coverage of the Pamunu people, I don't see why this should be done.  Coco bb8  (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:03, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions.  Coco bb8  (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:03, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't know enough about this topic space to feel absolutely confident in my recommendations. However, a not-insignificant number of sources appear to use pamunu in a different context, referring to the heritable agricultural land holdings, and not to the sub-caste of people who would work them. Further, the Epigraphia Zeylanica is the source given in the article as current. Notwithstanding the problems of using 1930s sources for South Asian topics, the mentions of pamunu in volume 3 seem to fall along the "land holdings" sense and not the "caste" sense. There are some sources that use this term in the sense of this article, but they're generally low-quality, such as self-published books. Arguably the best such source is this paper, and even that includes pamunu only in a list of castes; also, I do not believe the International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education is a high-quality indexed journal and if those caste lists are actually cited to anything at all there, I can't figure out what it would be (there is no reference 11). Lubal (talk) 16:44, 6 June 2024 (UTC)


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