Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Achayan

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The result was keep. — CharlotteWebb 16:46, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Achayan

This is too trivial to deserve an article. If it can go go in, many more similar trivia need to go in. Like Mooppar, Poola Chettan, Rubber Chetan, Kammal, Thamburan, Atiyan, Kettiyon, Kettiyol, Annachi, Valacheruman, Moyiliaru, Ummachi, Ithatha etc. Kuntan 17:40, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep I dont agree with you Kuttan, if you can add these topic it will be great, because you know what these terms means, but others does not, that is waht Encyclopedia is for. The article Achayan realy gave me some more details what I was not aware. Kjrajesh|talk
• Weak keep or merge I guess this slang/popular culture term applies to (some or all?) of Syrian Malabar Nasrani people. There's usage of "achayan" in journalism and Malayalam movies, including discussion of stereotype roles [1] so it probably deserves a mention somewhere. --Mereda 13:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per mereda.Bakaman _Bakatalk 23:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep- Achayan is a common Central travancore usage. You can see the usage of Achayan in Booker Prize Winner Arundhati Roy's Magnum Opus The God of Small Things. Keeping this article will help foreign readers to follow the common usages in Indian Writing in English. Adv. P. R. Bijuchandran 05:07, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• Very Strong Keep it is a common suffix used with names of syrian christians of South Kerala/Travancore given by the rulers of earlier time which i cant claim sources.also i feel Mr.Kundan is quoting those words as if he had some rages against syrians.Please mind.i believe u thought Achayan for the word which commonly called by students of other regions(eg Thrissur/Palakkad) friends from Travancore areas who perhaps dont know the socio-economical backgrounds of Syrian Christians,this is not a slang as many in other parts of kerala thinks. "Poola Chettan, Rubber Chetan," this shows he is purposely here to vandalise the article/destroy.infact FYI Tapioca- /Poola/Kolli/kappa is eaten widely in kerala and mostly in Travancore parts.

Praka123 23:10, 23 September 2006 (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.