Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yukthivicharam


 * 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   delete. X clamation point  00:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Yukthivicharam

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Notability tagged since September 2007. The three sentences here indicate it is a regional journalism article of little importance. If it was important, someone would have fixed it in the intervening 18 months since it was tagged. Miami33139 (talk) 03:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete: No Notability established. Ironholds (talk) 10:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.   —  Salih  ( talk ) 17:15, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak delete A couple of hits of Google books indicate that the magazine exists; but those hits seem to be simply referencing contents of the magazine, and not articles about the magazine. The web hits are dominated by wikipedia and its mirrors and I didn't find any secondary sources discussing "Yukthivicharam". So, as of present the article fails WP:NB and should be deleted. But the nomination should be kept open for the whole 5 days, in case someone familiar with Malayalam, is able to locate offline sources. Abecedare (talk) 05:03, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * (merged the above comment from the simultaneous Articles for deletion/Yukthivicharam (2nd nomination)) DGG (talk) 08:08, 20 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  -- Abecedare (talk) 04:36, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Abecedare put it quote well: none of the sources discuss the magazine itself, they just use it as a source and/or mention it in passing.  No notability is established. Themfromspace (talk) 03:42, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I have relisted this debate since it seems to have been lost following the above duplicate nomination. ascidian  | talk-to-me  20:01, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. If this publication were notable, it would show up in google news or google scholar, or at least, show up as citations there--both of those searches are pretty lax, and both get zero hits.  ALSO you can do a search in [[Malayalam], and it turns up only 6 hits:  [[User:Cazort|Cazort]] (talk) 21:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - I think there's no great need for this in en.wikipedia, but if someone will translate it & put it on ml.wikipedia, Malayalam speakers may better be able to judge its worthiness there.Ventifax (talk) 23:13, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * So what you actually mean is transwiki, not keep. Ironholds (talk) 00:50, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Transwikiing to other language Wikipedias is what we do with articles written in another language, not with articles in English about subjects in other languages. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:41, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete not gonna happen, is it?  Chzz  ►  16:48, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Malayalam is not written in the Latin script, so the vast majority of any possible sources would not be searchable in Latin script, making the supposed Malayalam search linked by Cazort meaningless. There may also be other possible transcriptions. What we can see from the Google Books search linked by Abecedare is that this magazine has been cited by the Indian Dictionary of National Biography as a source. That isn't in itself a usable source for this article, but it does indicate that this is a well established publication that would almost certainly have reliable sources available in Malayalam. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:41, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak keep. I could find two sources, . The first one is a proof that this magazine exists. The second is a Hindu article in which the editor of this magazine A.V. Jose is referred to as the “Yukthivicharam Jose”. This indirectly indicates the notability of the magazine. Salih  ( talk ) 05:51, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * For those of us not familiar with Malay culture could you please explain what a "“Yukthivicharam" is and how it makes the magazine notable? If it is a prestigious title it makes no difference; notability is not inherited. Ironholds (talk) 12:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm an idiot. So the assertions for notability are 1) you can prove it exists and 2) you can prove that the editor is associated with the magazine? Ironholds (talk) 12:31, 7 March 2009 (UTC)


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