Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarvavijnanakosam


 * 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The result was   nomination withdrawn. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 19:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Sarvavijnanakosam

 * – ( View AfD View log  •  )

per improvements made by Phil Bridger—Thank you Phil!    Thorncrag    20:45, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Notability not asserted.
 * Poorly sourced.
 * Very short for a topic that is said to be notable.
 * google says not much reliable third party coverage.
 * absolutely no back links to article.   Thorncrag    22:16, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  —Phil Bridger (talk) 22:37, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'm pretty sure that this is the Malayalam name for the, which is clearly notable. I know we have one or two AfD regulars who can make sense of Dravidian languages so I'll wait for confirmation of that before commenting further. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:52, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. If someone who has knowledge of the subject would care to expand the article so that it's more than a basic tagline, I would surely withdraw the nomination. But the article has existed for over a week now with no improvement, save for the one reference you added today, ostensibly only invoked due to my speedy tagging.  This combined with everything else makes it at least seem to call into question its notability.     Thorncrag    22:57, 14 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. Being a short article is not a reason for deletion. Sarvavijnanakosam is an encyclopedia in Malayalam published by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. "Sarvavijnanakosam" in Malayalam literally means encyclopedia. For a two-line stub like this the source provided is just sufficient. Thanks to Phil Bridger for declining speedy!  Salih  ( talk ) 04:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Thorncrag is too haste to delete things on areas where he/she has no expertise. The notability is asserted as the most important encyclopedia in the Malayalam language.  The information is sufficient for a stub.  It provides an  "authoritative" source, the government of India.  --Natkeeran (talk) 17:22, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Then why have you not stubified it? And perhaps you could clarify or show me which guideline specifies how fast is too hasty for proposing deletion? Please consider very carefully what you are implying. You are implying that people who don't know what an article is about should not touch them, even though Wikipedia should be written for a general audience and at least try to be relevant to any reader.  You can't make it incumbent upon editors who do not have knowledge of the topic to themselves improve the article.     Thorncrag    18:26, 17 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Very, very few links to it on google, doesn't seem notable (Per Thorncrag) Pilif12p : Yo  18:42, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * How many Google hits would you expect to find for a Malayalam name written in the Roman alphabet? this confirms that the English name for this is Malayalam Encyclopaedia, for which the searches that I linked above, especially the Google Books search, find plenty of sources. If you want to search for the Malayalam name then you need to do it in the Malayalam script, which looks very pretty but I can't make head nor tail of it. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:12, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * So why doesn't the article make this clear yet?    Thorncrag    20:15, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Firstly because, like over 3 million other articles, this article is not yet complete, secondly because I have only just found the source that confirms that Sarvavijnanakosam and the Malayalam Encyclopaedia are the same thing, and thirdly because I don't have the time to improve this article when I am constantly having to defend its existence. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:33, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.