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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:08, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Telinga Kingdom[edit]

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Telinga/Trilinga/tilinga is the generic name of Telugu country (parts of present-day Telangana and Andhra) used in Sanskrit. Telinga is used by some 18th century English authors to denote Telugu language. Notability of the term is questionable Redtigerxyz ^Talk 12:55, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I'm too ignorant to give an opinion on notability, but I'd like to congratulate the nominator in providing more information on the subject than the article does itself. Thincat (talk) 14:29, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:40, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:41, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as WP:OR / not significantly covered in secondary sources. Looking back into the article history (see this version) and tracing the cited Mahabharata reference, the relevant text actually refers to "Talavanas", which some (?) interpret as a reference to Telingas. Given such vague link to a term that itself is only trivially mentioned in the Mahabharata, I can't see how we can retain the article, at least in its present form. Searching for sources only brings up circular references; a few 19th c works of the form referred to in the nom; and a bunch of random websites of suspect reliability. Abecedare (talk) 22:33, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SarahStierch (talk) 07:24, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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