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Keep - given how many towns have this word in their name, I think it's noteworthy enough for Wikipedia. I asked a Pakistani friend about it and it turns out that the word implies possession. The wala and wali versions are the male and female versions. I am having a hard time coming up with RS to support the article, but of course, I am searching in English whereas you really want to be searching using Punjabi.
Robman94 (
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21:05, 5 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Notable both as an element in placenames (ubiquitous in the northern part of the subcontinent) and as the extremely common Hindi/Urdu suffix. Noting that the two facets of this topic should be treated within the same article, so a merge with
Wallah would be appropriate. –
Uanfala10:02, 7 September 2017 (UTC)reply
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
Keep - given how many towns have this word in their name, I think it's noteworthy enough for Wikipedia. I asked a Pakistani friend about it and it turns out that the word implies possession. The wala and wali versions are the male and female versions. I am having a hard time coming up with RS to support the article, but of course, I am searching in English whereas you really want to be searching using Punjabi.
Robman94 (
talk)
21:05, 5 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Notable both as an element in placenames (ubiquitous in the northern part of the subcontinent) and as the extremely common Hindi/Urdu suffix. Noting that the two facets of this topic should be treated within the same article, so a merge with
Wallah would be appropriate. –
Uanfala10:02, 7 September 2017 (UTC)reply
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