Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pran Sukh Yadav


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The result was delete. Barkeep49 (talk) 01:36, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Pran Sukh Yadav

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This article has been deleted thrice before (twice prodded for failing GNG; once for copyvio) and has recently been subject of an edit war over which unsourced version is preferable. Searching for sources, I find only trivial mentions in unreliable sources such as this website, |this book published by ISHA and another book titled Freedom Struggle of 1857 published by "Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd" that I cannot link to since it is on the spam-blacklist. All three sources copy freely from each other despite supposedly having different authors and publishers (ISHA Books is known for such practices of copying content from wikipedia etc and publishing books with apparently fictitious authors and editors). If deleted, the page may need to be salted. Abecedare (talk) 18:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC) Abecedare (talk) 18:09, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete: As the nominator has mentioned, there is very little online that mentions Pran Sukh Yadav in any great detail. Any sources that do talk about him are unreliable. Until new and more reliable sources come to light, there is little reason for this article to remain up. Even the only source on this article is a broken link. He seems to be more of a mythical folk hero than an actual figure. Many claim that he was a general in the Sikh army but I can find no Sikh sources that mention him.YaRaabAlHind (talk) 20:40, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Do not delete: The references are now available for the article. And thus here by I request to remove the nomination of deletion. The information which required the citations are now made available by me. Thanks. HinduKshatrana (talk) 23:05, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * None of the references you added are helpful in establishing notability. One is a search listing for 'Pran' on a news website, which brings up links related to the famous actor Pran; another is a 'circular' ref publishing articles from wikipedia; the third is a generic non-reliable website containing a trivial reference to Pran Sukh Yadav (Besides his Indian generals such as Hari Singh Nalwa, Pran Sukh Yadav, Gurmukh Singh Lamba, Dewan Mokham Chand, and Veer Singh Dillon, he employed Europeans in his army.)) I couldn't find any mention of Pran Sukh Yadav in this book you cited (see full text here) or find proper bibliographical information for the other cited book.
 * To avoid playing whack-a-mole with more sources, can you please read WP:HISTRS for the kind of sources we are looking for and, if they are not accessible online, provide relevant quotes so that we can judge how deeply they discuss the article's subject? Abecedare (talk) 01:30, 21 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete fails WP:GNG as lacks WP:SIGCOV in WP:RS. Mztourist (talk) 04:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, pending evidence of non-trivial coverage from reliable sources. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 19:05, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete, Does not have enough reliable sources, does not meet WP:GNG , Alex-h (talk) 14:05, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


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