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Kunthavai Naacchiyaar Government Arts College for Women


Kunthavai Naacchiyaar Government Arts College for Women (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Zero sources to demonstrate NOTABILITY and also fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 13:42, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College


Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NSCHOOL and WP:V Filmssssssssssss (talk) 13:41, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Christhu Raj College


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Fails WP:GNG and NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 13:33, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Michael S. Engel


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Significant portions and overall volume of the article are likely COI editing by Engel himself or by close associates, almost all IP edits have come from the Lawrence, Kansas area. Additionally there is no significant coverage of Engel in neutral secondary sources. Kevmin § 01:31, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Science, Kansas, Missouri, and New York. WCQuidditch 03:19, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. He has enormous citation counts for a taxonomist, easily enough for WP:PROF#C1, his multiple society fellowships also pass WP:PROF#C3, and his University Distinguished Professor title passes WP:PROF#C5. Any one of these would be enough. The badly justified nomination fails to address the correct notability criterion, WP:PROF, for which independent secondary sources are totally irrelevant. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:04, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. Agree with editor David Eppstein above. I think consensus should continue as it has been implied for more than 20 years, the life span of this article on WP. P.I. Ellsworth, ed.  welcome!  06:41, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
    If this is your reasoning, then I have a fairly serious question: given that the page was created by Micael Engel, and all of the substantive edits and additions to it were contributed by Michael Engel, aren't you giving a green light to any editor who decides that they are notable, and take steps to maintain therir own self-edited article without interference via anonymous IP edits? This article has been flagged - appropriately, given what WHOIS says about the IP edits - as a COI issue for over fifteen years. Why was it not deleted long ago? Again, if the only reason you are voting to keep is because the article has not been deleted yet, that does not seem appropriate for a self-created and self-edited article. Dyanega (talk) 14:49, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
    It's simply not true that "all of the substantive edits and additions to it were contributed by Michael Engel" -- see January 2023 for example. Athel cb (talk) 17:04, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
    Yes, the edits in January 2023 are a good example. All of these were changes to existing text, mostly providing citations, not the addiion of new material. Fixing a bad or broken citation is not a substantive edit, it is routine maintenance. That list of eponyms was added in edits by Engel himself, nearly always via the anonymous IP addresses in Kansas. Prior to that January 2023 set of edits, several eponyms had been added in a spate of edits June of 2022, from a dial-up in Miami, when Engel was attending the meeting of the Florida Entomological Society (see this edit history). Coincidence? Note the content and targets of all of those edits. Is it odd that no one ever suggested the article be deleted back then? Maybe, but I don't see how that justifies letting COI abuse be "grandfathered in" just because no one called for deletion before. Dyanega (talk) 17:38, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. Regardless of who created the article and who subsequently edited it, the GoogleScholar record is very impressive. h = 70 is a lot for an entomologist. (It would be very respectable, though not stupendous, for a biochemist, a subject I know more about, but it is more than just respectable in a lower-citation field.) Notice also that a high proportion of the well cited papers have one or two authors, so it's pretty clear that he did much or most of the work. A curious point that I noticed is that the editor who now wants the article deleted made a series of eleven edits in January 2023 with no suggestion that it should be deleted. Athel cb (talk) 17:01, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
    It should be noted that a notable portion of the later papers in the CV are published though a journal that Engel personally started and served as chief editor of, removing the peer-review portion of the science entirely. Actively avoiding peer-review to increase the paper count is not a good situation.--Kevmin § 17:24, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
    The highest number of citations is for a Cambridge University Press book, and the highly-cited articles are in journals including PNAS and Nature. In this situation, I don't see how his also publishing in a journal he edited affects the determination of notability (particularly since we don't even need to look at C1). Nor do I think that publishing in a journal one co-founded is necessarily unethical. If it's the Journal of Melittology you mean, everyone's status seems to be declared above board. His papers from the period when he was chief editor say that he was chief editor (for example). It's not substantially different from having a departmental newsletter or posting notes on one's own faculty website, only it's packaged as a journal for convenience. Maybe that's shady, maybe not; it's up to the scientists in that field to determine whether they're using that journal to push bad papers. Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 20:53, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Question. What is the policy-based reason for deletion here? Unclear whether the rationale is lack of notability or something else. YFB ¿ 18:43, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep Passes WP:PROF on two criteria (C3 and C5) independent of citations. The existing text isn't so bad that problems with it can't be fixed through ordinary cleanup. Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 20:28, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Unsure I don't think there is an issue of notability as an academic taxonomist. He was co-author on Evolution of Insects and has papers in major journals. If the article was written by neutral editors, there would be no problem. But it wasn't. I think the issue of COI with a large number of IP edits is a major problem, which doesn't go away just because it's being going on so long. A long history of COI doesn't make it less of an issue. It seems that keeping the article would be rewarding the violation of COI rules, although the article is not unacceptable. Keeping the article does add something to the encyclopaedia (hence keep), but overlooking violations of the rules doesn't help the credibility of Wikipedia (hence delete).    Jts1882 | talk  09:55, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Also Unsure and for the same reasons Jts1882 gives; the notability issue is a bit of a distraction, but I'll say that he is not more notable than a large number of other entomologists who have no entry in Wikipedia at all. Yes, I know quite well that this is not how things work, and it's a logical fallacy. "Person X has a Wikipedia article, but person Y is more notable and does not" is, all things being equal, a terrible argument. The difference here is that the only reason this particular person HAS a Wikipedia article is because he created it, and maintained it, and added to it for a very long time. In other words, all things are NOT equal here. This brings me to a question that I hope someone can answer: is it possible to permanently block an article from anonymous edits? If Engel cannot be prevented from anonymously editing this article, then I would vote to delete it rather than allow him to continue to do so; if a block CAN be instituted, then I would vote to keep. Dyanega (talk) 15:40, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
    @Dyanega: Yes it is possible, the article would need to be at least semi-protected to prevent new or unregistered users from editing it (see Wikipedia:Protection policy). Monster Iestyn (talk) 16:00, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Government College, Meenchantha


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Fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 23:43, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Government College of Arts and Science, Aurangabad


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Fails WP:GNG and NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 11:10, 16 March 2026 (UTC) I am also nominating the following related pages because they also fail WP:NSCHOOL and GNG,. often only with single sources for the entire page

Government Institute of Science, Aurangabad (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
S.B.E.S. College of Science (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Shivchhatrapati College, Aurangabad (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Yogeshwari Mahavidyalaya (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Dr. (Sow.) Indirabai Bhaskarrao Pathak Mahila Kala Mahavidyalaya (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Vasantrao Naik Mahavidyalaya, Aurangabad (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
  1. Government Institute of Science – Redirect to Aurangabad#Education
  2. S.B.E.S. College of Science – Redirect to Aurangabad#Education
  3. Shivchhatrapati College – Keep - Found borderline SIGCOV in some Marathi language articles.
  4. Yogeshwari Mahavidyalaya – Redirect to Ambajogai#Education
  5. Dr. (Sow.) Indirabai Bhaskarrao Pathak Mahila Kala Mahavidyalaya – Redirect to Aurangabad#Education
  6. Vasantrao Naik Mahavidyalaya – Redirect to Aurangabad#Education BhikhariInformer (talk) 13:24, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Mary Matha Arts & Science College


Mary Matha Arts & Science College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG and NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 11:17, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

  • Keep A Malayalam-language search yielded sources (now added) that I believe make the article meet notability criteria

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Bharat Ratna Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Government Arts and Science College


Bharat Ratna Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Government Arts and Science College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Couldn’t find anything appropriately notable outside of Wikipedia for this page. Fails WP:NSOURCE and NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 11:54, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Seethalakshmi Achi College for Women


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Fail WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:07, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Idhaya College for Women, Sarungani


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Fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:14, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Raja Doraisingam Government Arts College


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Fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:11, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Sri Sarada Niketan College for Women


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Fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:09, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Madurai Sivakasi Nadar's Pioneer Meenakshi Women's College


Madurai Sivakasi Nadar's Pioneer Meenakshi Women's College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NSOURCE and WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:08, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Arts and Science College, Karwar


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Fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 07:12, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

MES's M. M. College of Arts and Science, Sirsi


MES's M. M. College of Arts and Science, Sirsi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NSCHOOL and GNG Filmssssssssssss (talk) 07:13, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Milad-E-Sherief Memorial College, Kayamkulam


Milad-E-Sherief Memorial College, Kayamkulam (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NSCHOOL and NSOURCE Filmssssssssssss (talk) 07:35, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Syed Hameedha Arts and Science College


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Fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 07:43, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Alagappa University Evening College, Rameswaram


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Outdated (permanently closed) college. Also little coverage failing NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 07:44, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Pookoya Thangal Memorial Government College


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Fails WP:GNG Filmssssssssssss (talk) 07:49, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Nalanda College of Arts and Science


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Fails WP:NSCHOOL and GNG Filmssssssssssss (talk) 06:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

N. S. S. College, Manjeri


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Fails WP:V and WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 08:31, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

N.B.K.R. Institute of Science and Technology


N.B.K.R. Institute of Science and Technology (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Catastrophic WP:NSCHOOL and WP:NSOURCE fail Filmssssssssssss (talk) 22:29, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

College of Applied Science Kozhikode (IHRD)


College of Applied Science Kozhikode (IHRD) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 02:13, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Snow keep Degree awarding institution. Lots of search results. In terms of GNG, there’s gotta be a presumption that local print newspapers supply notability. RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 03:55, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
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College of Applied Science Thamarassery (IHRD)


College of Applied Science Thamarassery (IHRD) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Page is pretty much just a WP:BROCHURE. Also fails WP:V Filmssssssssssss (talk) 02:13, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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R. Sankar Memorial Arts and Science College


R. Sankar Memorial Arts and Science College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 02:14, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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  • Delete. Fails WP:NSCHOOL. Against redirect that has no source to support its existence. RangersRus (talk) 16:45, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Sree Narayana College, Cherthala


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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NSCHOOL Filmssssssssssss (talk) 02:19, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Servite et contribuere (talk) 03:33, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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