Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pulikkanny

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 of the debate was keep. - Mailer Diablo 01:09, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pulikkanny

Clear case of vanity. This village is unknown and does not need a wikipedia entry.PeaSea 06:07, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:26, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and cleanup as it appears to be a real place. Maybe the title is misspelled? Punkmorten 17:20, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This place is not important and I would have normally voted for a delete. But looking at Category:Cities_and_towns_in_Kerala, the benchmark for notability seems to be very low. Towns and villages which are hardly anything - like Singarathoppe, Padne, Puthuvely - have articles about them, so I don't see why this place shouldn't have one about it. Tintin 21:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I beg to differ. I have studied in a place near to the above mentioned place and haven't heard of anything of this sort mentioned in the page. The article looks like a prank played by some one who stubled upon the wikipedia while browsing. PeaSea 21:34, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I too come from a place near there and haven't heard of Pulikkanny. But the place name is not fake [1]. Chimminy Dam and Kurumali river does exist. A google for Kerala Forest Research Institute Botanical Gardens says that it is in Peechi, which is in the same general area.

But my vote is mainly based on the presence of the other not-so-important places from Kerala (where the hell is Achickal, Pavayil and Patturaikkal ? There must be dozens of places by the name Alinchuvadu) Tintin 21:45, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions. -- Tintin 21:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I understand our policy is to "keep all real places" (even Erving's Location, New Hampshire). And this village even counters systemic bias. Punkmorten 21:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the long-standing precedent to keep all verifiable settlements. We must have thousands of bot-created articles on U.S. "cities" of under 100 inhabitants, every single one containing nothing but the same identical statistics spouted straight from a census; that's a heck of a systemic bias to counter. — Haeleth Talk 22:37, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, if this place is real, in accordance with precedence from the U.S.A. and to counter systemic bias. India has three times as many inhabitants as the U.S. and, assuming any kind of similar settlement pattern (which is not a given, but too much for me to research now), we should ultimately end up with about three times as many articles on places in India as we have for the U.S. But with the relatively few Indians on Wikipedia, there is a risk that hoaxes could slip thorough the cracks. We really need some authoritative gazetteer(s) for india which could be consulted for verifying information, and which should always be referenced in the articles. u p p l a n d 08:31, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Following a discussion with User:Peasea, I would like to change this article to a one line stub which just says it is a small village near Thrissur. This place is very insignificant - Peasea lived quite close by and knows about it; I come from a place which is about 40 miles from there and have never heard of it. While the places referred to in the article like Chimminy dam and Kurumali river are real, the descriptions looks so suspicious that it is probably fake. Note that the article does not say anything it being near the dam, but a 'stop enroute'.

It is not 'renowned', it is not a 'famous tourist attraction', the so called football league is probably played in paddy fields or in a school ground (as often done in villages in Kerala ). Tintin 17:19, 7 December 2005 (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.