Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rakasiya


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. Nomination withdrawn (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:32, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Rakasiya

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Fails Notability (Geographic locations) Option Two and/or needs very drastic improvements per Option Three. In addition, sources are not cited and I cannot find the place through Google at all. Finally, at least half of the article is in a different language. D ARTH P ANDA talk 20:30, 20 October 2008 (UTC) 
 * Delete. as per Nom. --GDibyendu (talk) 06:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC) Keep as location reference has been added. --GDibyendu (talk) 18:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  21:21, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep a poorly written essay that's sure to be rejected as a policy or guideline is no substitute for an argument. Foreign language material can be transfered to the appropriate language version and probably moved to talk for now. Without it, it still passes the usual standards of inclusion. Wily D  13:13, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - Can you confirm that this location in fact exists? Google turned up nothing for me aside from the non-English page that was copypasted into Rakasiya. D ARTH P ANDA talk 13:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It does exist: searching with the census code brings up Raksiya - alternate (mis)spellings are quite common in India. For example this is from some governmental/regional agency, this pdf-map from another gov site has Raksiya. There's few more tidbits, too. Probably at least spellings Rakasiya/Rakasija/Raksiya/Raksija are used, possibly even more. In case you are interested, here's "translation" of the text in wikimapia :D – Sadalmelik ☎ 20:38, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Digging around, I did find reference to it in two Indian Government publications, though one only confirmed that some road went there, and the other was equally as not terribly useful. It's certainly real, though. Wily D  21:30, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:08, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep per verification provided by Sadalmelik. Nyttend (talk) 00:30, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Verifiable places are notable and Wp:N(Geographic locations) should be deleted. Exit2DOS2000   •T•C•  07:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * AfD Withdrawn. Verifiable location with potential for growth. Sorry for the trouble. D ARTH P ANDA talk 18:52, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


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