Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanjore Diary

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 Delete. This doesn't look like a real article, and the editors in this discussion had a variety of different ideas for how to fix it. I will make the article text available to anyone who wants to work on it in their own user space. WP:NOT suggests to me that the material may not be appropriate anywhere, but with a lot of work, someone might be able to create normal article content. EdJohnston (talk) 02:29, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tanjore Diary[edit]

The page was speedy-deleted once (by User:Ganeshk), and Template:Prod was added to it before but removed later by the page creator (User talk:Arunvats). I've gone through the article briefly, compared it with Thanjavur, and here's what I get:

It's obvious that the lead section is a complete copy from Thanjavur, the exact place this article talks about.
The article MAY have a bit of useful information, but it's rather poorly referenced (because there isn't a single footnote, not to mention it's a messed up article needing cleanup/wikify.
The "Thanjavur Diary" section is completely edited by the same editor (the main contributor/creator), so it can be assumed that other editors aren't aware of this article.
After Googling "tanjore diary" or "thanjavur diary", results show no websites implying notability.

As a conclusion, I'm suggesting either merge (somehow) into Thanjavur or delete. — Yurei-egg tart 11:21, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~ - This is clearly referring to Thanjavur. There's no evidence that "Tanjore Diary" is an actual name of anything. I can't figure out the motivations of the creator. Maybe some kind of WP:SANDBOX exercise. --Oakshade (talk) 16:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC) Changed to Userfy or Merge per below. There are unique facts in the article that can be salvaged. A lot of work, though. --Oakshade (talk) 15:31, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 16:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and merge any useful information that can be salvaged with Thanjavur. -Yupik (talk) 20:13, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Userfy I think it is a collection of census data on a number of villages within Thanjavur. Each should have its own article/be added to existing articles. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 15:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Whats the deal with the "Tanjore Diary" naming?? What I;d suggest doing is merging with the Thanjavur article ir moving to a Economy of Thanjavur sub articles and formatting some of the more useful information properly in a table. On quick glance some of the info in this article looks like it should be filtered down but I doubt anybody should be removing material which gives information on the economy and facilities of the villages. Technically it is an encyclopedic article which just needs a lot of work reformatting and representing to standards and splitting appropriately in the relevant articles. SOme of the info might be converted to text. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Userfy We have lots of apparently good looking facts here, that want for wikification. MBisanz ^talk 16:15, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Thanjavur District, edit down to a stub, and remove section from Thanjavur - the article is mostly a collection of statistical trivia about villages in the district... most of these should be cut, especially the details of banking services. --Marcinjeske (talk) 05:06, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Merge" to Thanjavur district you mean...? — Yurei-egg tart 08:04, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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