Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Wai Floating Market

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 keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:12, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Don Wai Floating Market[edit]

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I have proposed this article for deletion because:

It is not notable. It is not a floating market. It is a market on the banks of a river, like thousands of of others in Thailand. It has good food according to the cites.
This is, in essence, a travel guide article, some info for Wikivoyage (to which I will move relevant bits)
In spite of being on the English Wikipedia, this article has no English citations. There is a Thai version of this article.
The article is poorly written, has no inline cites, but could be fixed were the topic worth the effort. It is not.
This article was created by user 171.98.30.207 or Torpido, who I think are the same person and who do not respond.
This article is not worthy of Wikipedia and its lack of notability means it is not worth further efforts to save it.

Seligne (talk) 02:06, 22 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This discussion page didn't originally use the template and wasn't properly transcluded to the daily list. I've just fixed the formatting. --Paul_012 (talk) 00:05, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Thai-language references are perfectly acceptable. There is no requirement for references to be in English. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:20, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Thailand-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:20, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment:. The market is a popular academic study subject. A brief Google search reveals many academic papers and theses.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] --Paul_012 (talk) 00:52, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The scholar results appear to be enough to get past GNG. Having a misleading name and being similar to thousands of other markets are not relevant criteria to deletion. SpinningSpark 22:46, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I've gone ahead and renamed the article to Don Wai Market, which is the name used in most English-language guidebooks. Talat nam in Thai literally translates to "water market", so it could be "floating market", "riverside market", etc. depending on context. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:30, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Plenty of scholar study provided by Paul 012. --Lerdsuwa (talk) 02:35, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.