Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Durgamasur

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 23:55, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Durgamasur[edit]

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completely unsourced and not notable. google doesnt even find anything other than this wiki page FMSky (talk) 14:36, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Hinduism-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, this is a candidate for Speed Deletion as a hoax. Tisnec (talk) 17:41, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment More than enough hits in GScholar mentioning this entity, not sure how notable they are. The page as it stands is a long rant, likely a copyvio copied from somewhere. Badly needs a rewrite if kept. Oaktree b (talk) 19:11, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that I have removed the massive chunk of completely unreferenced verbiage which was added recently. I have no idea where that came from. It probably wasn't a hoax but... who knows? Without references it could be anything. The article is back to being a stub. I propose that the AfD proceed on the basis of evaluating the stub. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:16, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete So what have we got here? The lack of an article in Hindi makes me wonder how legit this is but the article is not an orphan so you might hope that somebody would have spotted those articles linking to a bogus topic if this is bogus. That said, the subject is mentioned in Durga#Pancharatra_texts with unconvincing references so... Is it bogus? It doesn't seem to be a complete hoax because we have a passing mention in a book from 1997 here which has Durgamasur being killed by Durga, as recounted in the article. The snippet suggests that there are details in the Devi Mahatmya but I can't find the name Durgamasur in this translation. There is a brief mention of slaying an asura called Durgama though. (Speculation: Durgama + asura = Durgamasur?) There a few hits in Google Scholar but they all trace back to Wikipedia so that's no use. I'm going to say that the topic here is probably real but definitely not notable. At best, this is a very minor character in Hindu mythology who exists solely to get killed by a character that people actually care about. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:54, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per User:DanielRigal. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 22:43, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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