Yes, there is a very definite tendency for deletion of anything about a non UK/US person or institution, or an academic, or a classical musician, or someone or something not recent enough to have material on Google. The reason given is always "notability not asserted" and people are actually marking for deletion anything which does not literally countain the word "notability" in the first paragraph. This is worst in speedy, because there are only a few hours at most to review tthe listed items, and there's an ongoing discussion on the talk page of WP:CSD.
Ways to deal with it are well known, but I'm outlining it for clarity. More people must to make the very considerable effort of reviewing at least some of the deletions. For speedys, they're at [[Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion]]. Twice a day is not too often. Then there's [[Category:Proposed deletion]] every few days is enough, and similarly at AfD. You'll see me there-- I'm DGG.
AfD is the easy part, because if an article gets to AfD, there are enough people watching to speak up, and enough time to improve the article.
I'm not hopeful on structural change, because no structural change can stand up to people wantonly ignoring the meaning of the rules. But WP is after all a cooperatively edited project, and individual people joining in can make a difference. To return to the original posting, if a number of other people familiar with Indian material support worthy articles, it will work.
For individual articles, the way to do it is to put in a clearly sufficient number of citations. from printed works. (accompanied by English translations if necessary). I've found that specific citations from peer-reviewed journals do help, if they are at all pertinent. So do Ph.d. theses and even Masters theses.
The other specific tactic some like-minded people are using is to write the article on their user page, and invite comment individually from people likely to be active in AfD. Format does matter.
-- David Goodman
On 1/8/07, Steve subsume@gmail.com wrote:
My are these slopes slippery this time of year. And me without my sled.
-S
On 1/8/07, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
That's a big hypothetical - if he had been born there, how much and what would he have written? Having somehting un-notable may not be a grave error, but having thousands of un-notable things clogs Wikipedia, makes fact-checking harder and opens the doors wide to usage of Wikipedia for advertisement.
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