Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sayyid Alavi Thangal


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The result was Withdrawn by nominator (non-admin technical closure). Ymblanter (talk) 13:22, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Sayyid Alavi Thangal

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One source is to scribd, the other is to the blog of one of the article's contributors. Fails WP:Notability (people) in addition to looking like a violation of WP:ADVERT. It is worth noting that abut a dozen accounts have been doing this for multiple individuals and organizations tied to south India. MezzoMezzo (talk) 06:11, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn by nominator per the below comments. MezzoMezzo (talk) 08:41, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. MezzoMezzo (talk) 06:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. MezzoMezzo (talk) 06:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Request nom to withdraw AfD - easily found in Google Books. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:59, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Question – What in the world makes you say this is an advert? Looks legit to me. – TC N7  JM  13:08, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
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