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Please check recent discussion at AfD-- Full professors at major universities are almost always found notable there--they invariably have published much work recognized as notable by their peers. You may disagree, but such has been the consensus--I can not recall one deletion in the last 8 months. In any case, according to WP:CSD, speedy is for articles with no claim to notability, and any bona-fide claim is sufficient--saying one is a professor anywhere is such a claim--so is saying someone has written a book, etc. The reason is that more than 1 or 2 people should see these cases just in case somebody with only one book actually is notable, etc. If you think the claims to notability insufficient, and the article has been abandoned, then WP:Prod is the way to go. If you think it will be defended, then WP:AFD, DGG (talk) 18:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

as a further guide, associate professors are sometimes notable--it depends on the amount of published works, and a convenient way to check is to use Google Scholar, keeping in mind that coverage is relatively weak for India. I want to encourage you to continue nominating academic, poets, and so on whom you think not notable for deletion by prod and afd. But speedy is a narrow category. By the way, it can be used only for those sorts of things specified in WP:CSD--people, web content, bands, companies. Not languages. DGG (talk) 18:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

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Please don't remove the tag I put there. It needs to remain in place until the issue is sorted by an administrator. Hut 8.5 18:30, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

When you move a page, you are supposed to click on "move" at the top of the page (next to "history"). This will preserve the page's edit history, which is required to comply with Wikipedia's license. The cut-and-paste move you did did not preserve the edit history and needs to be rectified. Someone needs to delete the page Kamala Devi and then move Kamala devi to the new title Kamala Devi, which will turn Kamala devi into a redirect. I can't do this myself because you need to be an administrator, so I put a tag on the page requesting that an administrator do it. Hut 8.5 18:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Poets on the IWE page

Good idea. --Relata refero (disp.) 20:42, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

List of Indian poets

G'day. I note that you have reverted my deletion of a swag of redlinks from the above article. It is not normal to leave redlinks as 'place holders' in case someone eventually writes an article. If these poets are notable then articles will be written about them and then they can be listed. Leaving large quantities of redlinks leads to significant vandalism where people just add their names to the list. Notability is impossible to discover from such lists. I will leave your revert for a few weeks and if articles are not written about the language group of poets you 'saved' I'll delete them. Gillyweed (talk) 23:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Dilip Sankarreddy

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I had never told you to remove the redlink. I just suggested to Be Bold and create an article if you have any interest in his poetry and life. You have already gotten a reliable reference, so what is the problem? Be Bold. Shivashree (talk) 03:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Recognition

Hi. Please note that lok satta is not recognised as per September 2009 elections, http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ElectoralLaws/OrdersNotifications/Symbols_Sep_2009.pdf . If there is any later source stating that they are, please provide it. --Soman (talk) 21:54, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I'm terribly sorry, I read the edit diff wrong. --Soman (talk) 13:35, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

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Added the license description as requested Townblight (talk) 20:21, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Prasanna Meda

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Being the President of a large nonprofit political organization itself is the notability. Do undo the speedy deletion. Townblight (talk) 23:49, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Actually no - please see Wikipedia:Notability again.Jasper Deng (talk) 00:27, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

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Look at the right side of the image in the source. It says: "Some Rights Reserved". Click on it and you will find that it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Townblight (talk) 14:32, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Category:History books by country

See proposal to merge/rename Category:History books by country Hugo999 (talk) 10:11, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010

I reverted your unexplained reomvals on the page, kindlty explain so in the future.(Lihaas (talk) 17:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)).

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Why do you remove content that is encyclopaedic in nature, hurting the quality of the pages? When the pursuit of all involved has been to improve the pages.

Also, it is not tasteful on your part to give a "final warning". Townblight (talk) 02:03, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

If any citations are questionable, you can consider to edit/remove them. But removing non-promotional and valid content in a page that is encylopaedic hurts that page. Townblight (talk) 02:22, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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