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The result was no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 14:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dr.P.Gururaja Bhat (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This article is entirely unreferenced. Per Wikipedia:Attribution, "If an article topic has no reliable sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." John254 00:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. No prejudice to a keep if attribution can be found. --Dennisthe2 00:42, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Same as above, unless it acquires some sources. --Theshoestore 04:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, Apparently this chap wrote a book [1], which seems to have been cited in a few online essays. Notability established, in my opinion. Lankiveil 04:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]
• Weak keep. Many relevant google hits, [2] however article needs a major expansion. Notable. Article is only a few days old, we should probably give it a bit more time. CattleGirl ^{talk | sign! | review me} 05:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BTW I got only 7 unique G hits.[3] ----♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 10:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as it stands now. If you can show more of these alleged sources, I might reconsider. Realkyhick 06:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or rename/move to P Gururaja Bhatt. Author of Studies in Tuluva history and culture, from the pre-historic times upto the modern and Antiquities of South Kanara. Assumming good faith in hopes of additional source from users familiar with India and its culture.--I already forgot 09:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Writing a book alone doesn't get you through WP:BIO, and the article still lacks viable references. Move to appropriate name if kept, of course. A Train ^{take the} 16:38, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as this subject is not yet suitable for Wikipedia. Mr. Berry 23:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete not an article, no sources, writing a book isn't sufficient evidence of notability. Wile E. Heresiarch 00:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions. --   ⇒ bsnowball  10:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete:per nom. --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 10:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Keep - Professors and historians are not rock stars or cricket players. Obviously, not everyone would have heard of them. Unless someone gets down to study Tulu history or maybe Karnataka history they might not come across this author. But for someone who is a student of these less glamorous subjects, Prof. Gururaja Bhat is certainly notable. A quick search on books.google.com and worldcat.org can throw light on his notability. For example, a search on books.google.com reveals that Rama Jois has used P. Gururaja Bhat's books as references in his own books. Now did somebody say, "Who the hell is Rama Jois?". Well, Rama Jois was a Judge of the Supreme Court of India and later Governer of Chattisgarh. These are only the highest offices that he has held and needless to say he's held and holds several more. And where has he referred to P. Gururaja Bhat? Well in his book, "Legal and Constitutional History of India: Ancient, Judicial and Constitutional System" which is considered a most seminal and definitive work by students and scholars of the subject. Go to books.google.com, search for this book and then search the book for "gururaja bhat". If a Supreme Court judge who is himself a respected historian can refer to another author, then by implication, the other author is certainly no quack! btw, the book that M.Rama Jois has referred to is Gururaja Bhat's "Tuluva history and culture". Now that notability has been established, do a speedy keep and mark it as a stub. Sarvagnya 22:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I've added some refs and content to the article. A search with alternative spellings indicates that he was a notable historian who was an authority on Tulu-related stuff("Gururaja Bhatt", "Gururaja Bhat", "Gururaj Bhatt", and "Gururaj Bhat"). utcursch | talk 05:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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