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The result was delete. Drmies (talk) 04:24, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Akboria[edit]

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PROD was removed with the reason "I think there are enough sources from the website. This is not advertisement at all, this is a huge part of the history of Bogra City. The article also describes the then situation of the city (1900s)" - Primary references are: #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9, #10, #11; ref#3 is talking about the city; #1 is a wikipedia page; and finally ref #8 is a user-review page without any reviews... Page didn't changed since my PROD. mabdul 12:31, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Delete: Clear case of advertisement. Article is not supported by independent references from reliable sources (and I'm from Bangladesh ... no systemic bias here ... no local, non-English sources were provided either). --Ragib (talk) 06:55, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do not delete: The Bogra city has a huge history starting from era when Bangladesh wasn't yet liberated from India during Mughal reign. I opposed the deletion of the article because since Wikipedia is a place where people come to learn, a piece of history should not be removed from Wikipedia. The purpose of creating the article is never for advertising, but for the readers to read about Bogra's evolution and urbanization. As mentioned in the article, before Akboria was founded, people could not have beef because Hindus were dominant in the area. Muslims in the city were deprived of so much more, but with Akboria's appearance as the first Muslim restaurant, there hence came a great change in the society and the then Bogra. Everyone is free to edit the article as they like, but the data about the history of the then Bogra, including names of establishers, years etc. have all been verified from Akboria as they have newspaper articles and other records of history saved with them.Arman Khossain (talk) 14:19, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete because while it says it's not spam, it's spam. Bearian (talk) 17:27, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.