Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northern Campaign of Raghunath Rao

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 12:25, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Northern Campaign of Raghunath Rao

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The article is a clear case of WP:SYNTH. Google Books provide no results at all for "Northern Campaign of Raghunath Rao" or the original title "Northern Conquest of Raghunath Rao". The editor has arbitrarily linked various battles of his own choice into a single conflict, not supported by any RS. Also, note that the orginal creator has been banned for sockpuppetry, and multiple sockpuppets have often tried to restore the article after other editors redirected the page. PadFoot (talk) 12:05, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2024 September 28. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 12:24, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, History, Military, Afghanistan, Delhi, and Punjab. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 12:33, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete; clearly lacks notability as a singular subject. Much of the content fails verification and tries to blow out of proportion the historical significance of the events involving the winning states, as is typical with these socks. Noting to @Crashed greek that PadFoot was merely restoring the "backdoor deletion" rightly done by Sitush in October 2023 but repeatedly undone without just reason by socks. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 00:14, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User Sitush mentioned by you is not an administrator with speedy deletion privilege. Crashed greek (talk) 03:55, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He does not have to be. "Backdoor deletion" (less pejoratively referred to as WP:BLARing) can be done by any user. The only reason to revert such "deletion" would be if you have an actual objection to the reasons for the article's blanking and redirecting. Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 04:03, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - The Maratha Empire expanded from Tamil Nadu to Peshawar due to this campaign. It is a very big territory he captured, so very notable campaign. Crashed greek (talk) 04:22, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But do sources say that this "campaign" as one coherent subject even existed? Flemmish Nietzsche (talk) 11:42, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder which sources even claim this extent, or even associate a campaign by this name to this made-up exaggerated extent. PadFoot (talk) 12:01, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete yet more exaggeration, misrepresentation, and WP:SYNTH. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:52, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Article is full of WP:SYNTH and was written by confirmed sockpuppets, which is unfortunately common within this contentious topic area. Synth has no place here. Someguywhosbored (talk) 03:07, 4 October 2024 (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.