Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swamulavaari Lingotam

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) —☮JAaron95 ^Talk 06:03, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Swamulavaari Lingotam

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I question whether this is a real place. The article is self-contradictory: it says that the village is part of the Nalgonda district in the Indian state of Telangana, and it's in a couple of Nalgonda-related categories, but it also claims that it's within the state of Andhra Pradesh, and it uses the term "mandal", which the tehsil article says is a term associated particularly with Andhra Pradesh. It can't be in both: the article says it's within Nampally, which isn't on the border between the two states. These contradictions make me question whether it's real, especially because no sources are presented. I ran a Google search, hoping to find something useful to salvage the article, but even excluding Wikipedia results found nothing useful: I got a mix of WP: mirrors that simply don't mention their source, along with lots of autogenerated pages and other uselessness. All this being said I'll happily withdraw this if someone can find solid evidence that this place is a real village (hopefully someone more familiar with local languages will be able to do it better than I), but without evidence at this point, we can't keep the article. Nyttend (talk) 20:29, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 02:08, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, but recommend renaming the article. It exists in the 2011 census (as Swamulavari Lingotam(577261), population of 2,057), and apparently there's a school there. One thing I'm not sure about is whether Swamulavari Lingotam(576836), with a population of 2,629, is another part of the same village but in a different mandal, or a separate place with the same name. Telangana only became a state in 2014, so it's out of date information rather than a contradiction. Peter James (talk) 22:24, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The location was changed in the article from Choutuppal to Nampally by an IP, but no explanation was provided. These are the mandals mentioned in the census, both in Nalgonda district. Peter James (talk) 22:37, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Tentative keep. It definitely seems to be an inhabited place - or, rather, two inhabited places about 20 miles apart, both in Nalgonda district, one in Choutuppal mandal at 17°17′39″N 78°57′00″E / 17.2942452°N 78.950087°E / 17.2942452; 78.950087, a few miles north-east of Choutuppal itself (with the school noted by User:Peter James, and the other in Nampally mandal at or near 16°54′19″N 78°53′57″E / 16.9052952°N 78.8991202°E / 16.9052952; 78.8991202, west of Nampally. The problem is that it is not always easily possible to tell from sources which of the two is being referred to. PWilkinson (talk) 13:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Seems it's a real place, but I'd like to get some more eyes on this to clear up the confusion about which real place it is. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:25, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton | ^Talk 23:25, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —☮JAaron95 ^Talk 12:14, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Village really exists, I have added one source regarding population and any kind of settlement deserves article, specially when this village is having population more than 2,500. But article do need improvement. I will suggest creator to add more sections on "demography", "transport", "governance and administration" etc. --Human3015^{Send WikiLove} 09:57, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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