Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Unionhawk Talk E-mail 23:20, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar

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Not sure if this meets notability or verifiability guidelines. Quanticle (talk) 04:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
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 * Comment - I believe there's a good chance this article could be rescued but don't have time for the project. For example here is a class syllabus from the University of Pune that includes a section on Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar. Here's another syllabus. Unfortunately both Google Books and Scholar comes up with little usable data for "Javdekar 1894 1955" (his birth and death years).  As he's being studied as part of the MA program for Political Science classes in India it's likely there is [WP:N] class material and it's a matter of finding someone at the University of Pune willing to dig it up. I don't know if they observe summer breaks the way American universities do.  He's also known as Acharya Javdekar. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 08:25, 25 August 2009 (UTC)  I found this CV and have e-mailed the guy as he has written two publications and either gave or attended a seminar about Javdekar. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 08:38, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * This is the reply from Rajeshwari Deshpande "I am really sorry for a delayed reply to your mail. I was trying to find out refernces to Javdekar in English. Unfortunately there are hardly any. Javdekar's writings are available only in Marathi. I have done my Ph. D thesis on his formulation of Satyagrahi Samajawad in English but it is unpublished and thus not easily accessible. You will find a reference to Javdekar in mathew Lederle's book titled as Philosophical Trends in modern Maharashtra, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1975. Recently, G P Pradhan, a socialist activist from Maharashtra has written a small book on Javdekar for Sahitya Academy. But I do not have the exact ref of that book with me right now." The OCLC reports six copies of the Mathew Lederle's book in the USA library system. It's in Google Books too but I can't get useful extracts out of it at the moment. --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 11:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your effort emailing the person! I've added a few refs I found on Google Books. The book by Mehta and Pantham has a lot more detail, but this should be enough for the AfD for now. Shreevatsa (talk) 16:51, 1 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep; I think the fact that he presided over the Sahitya Sammelan implies he was notable enough. Shreevatsa (talk) 14:03, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep This and this (in Marathi) show some notability, while this search in Marathi also throws up a some significant sources. Unfortunately I'm only familiar with the script, not the language, so I can't use it much in the article. But given that there's coverage in news articles more than a half-century after his death, it shows that he's notable; article needs to be tagged for references, but it's a keep alright. - SpacemanSpiff Calvin&#8225;Hobbes 16:06, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Notability established by User:Marc Kupper's findings and sources added to the article User:Shreevatsa. Hope the article is expanded further and wikipedia's coverage of "vernacular" writers eventually improves. Abecedare (talk) 22:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)


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