Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chang dance

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The result was no consensus. Nakon 00:31, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Chang dance

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Term I am trying to find notability for (go figure when I try to find Change Dance all I seem to get is "chang dances") Wgolf (talk) 02:51, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Lakun.patra (talk) 04:17, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

• 2 articles have been added as references, plus loads of Youtube links (which aren't reliable sources). Doesn't seem enough to show good notability. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:10, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
• Comment-well when I tried to look up Chang dance as you probably can guess all I could find was stuff like someone with the name Chang dancing. Wgolf (talk) 18:12, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:37, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

• Keep, or, Merge with Culture of Rajasthan - This is a folk dance that is tied to an annual festival. Found multiple refs for the dance, but I fear the article needs a full rewrite if retained of its own accord mostly because it duplicates the summary section under the "time" and "area" sections. Here is what I found, for anyone that wants to get started:

• Sharma, B. K.; Kulshreshtha, Seema; Rahmani, Asad R. (14 September 2013). Faunal Heritage of Rajasthan, India: General Background and Ecology of Vertebrates. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-4614-0800-0. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
• Pandey, Tripti (1 January 1999). Where Silence Sings: Sounds and Rhythms of Rajasthan. HarperCollins Publishers, India. p. 58. ISBN 978-81-7223-308-2.
• Mathur, U. B. (2002). Treasure-trove of Rajasthan. Folklorists. p. 167. ISBN 978-81-85129-01-3.
• Iqbal, Mohammed (2 March 2010). "Pink city plays host to colourful elephants on Holi". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 April 2015. ...bands were invited to lend the distinctive Holi music with drums and Chang... ← scribbleink ^talk 07:31, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Note to admin: Incorporated some of my references and rewrote some parts, although half of it remains unclear/redundant. ← scribbleink ^talk 08:07, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

• Keep Definitely notable . There are multiple references available. I have improved the page little bit. Needs further improvement not deletion.Shyamsunder (talk) 07:23, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 00:58, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 04:31, 14 April 2015 (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.