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No indication of notability whatsoever and reads more like a dictionary entry. Plus, googling the title just leads me to a village in Pakistan of the same name, with nothing on this topic. Yelps ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ critique me08:41, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: There used to be much more content, but it was removed as completely unsourced. What's left is definitely insufficient to meet any inclusion standard for Wikipedia, but I offer no opinion as to whether this is insurmountable. (My delsorting here will be based on the prior content as much as the remaining stub.) WCQuidditch☎✎08:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Subject meets criteria of WP:MUSIC: his songs have charted (e.g., "Sakhiyaan" with over 600 million views), he has been nominated for a notable award (PTC Punjabi Music Awards), and received substantial coverage in reliable sources, including recognition from Spotify. Notability is well-established. Cinelatina (talk) 20:39, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable musician. Fails Wp:GNG and Wp:NMUSIC. No SIGCOV is available, just passing mentions and routine PR articles for the releases. There are two award nominations as well but both of them are non-notable and just nominations. Also, the article's creator was blocked as a sock and UPE. Zuck28 (talk) 20:20, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This biography is far better-sourced than most of the other Articles for deletion, and I am opposed to a Western bias of deletion of non-Western topics. - Poof positive (talk) 04:26, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notability is demonstrated under WP:MUSIC. Subject has produced and composed for widely recognized artists and songs (e.g., "Sakhiyaan", "Sorry", "Saara India") released under independent labels. His production work has received broad exposure and coverage, confirming his significance in the Punjabi music scene. Cinelatina (talk) 20:37, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The article is not mostly unsourced also WP:RAJ refers to the caste system whereas the Gurdaspur District (British Punjab) article does not mention caste at all, there is no reference to behaviour, no stereotypes of people it is in the main about the structure and governance of the old district
The article is about a second level division of British India which at some 4.5 million km² was Britain's largest colonial possession.
An article about this is not therefore a random collection of information, Gurdaspur was split in 1947 and its boundaries changed, prior to 1947 it was considered worthy of an encyclopaedic entry and the modern district is different to the previous one.
It's not random information to have more than one article, it's an encyclopaedic method for helping to clarify information and present it accordingly to the reader, you segment the information for a particular epoch which is useful especially when boundaries have changed.
As for most of the prose is in Gurdaspur district, this does not appear to be the case, other editors have updated with more information but
I'd say in this case Gurdaspur district#British Raj should have a link that says main article Gurdaspur District (British Punjab).
because this article has much more information about the erstwhile colonial district.
Also while it is understandable that colonial era records should not be used to propagate racial or caste theories this does not apply here - also as a comparison I used the Umdat-ut-Tawarikh as a source for the Mir Painda Khan article, the text is quite critical of him but I omitted that and just used the source text to to help with the chronology of what happened. When it came to the Gurdaspur source texts - there was nothing of that nature to omit anyway.
Keep – Colonial-era subdivision that existed from creation of the province in 1849. District was also the most significantly affected subdivision in the province by the Radcliffe Line and partition in 1947. Van00220 (talk) 01:06, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot find a single WP:RS about this area. The only citation on this article is a Google Map reference, which itself is outdated and not working now. As such, this is an unknown village with absolutely notability and should be deleted. FujaFula (talk) 21:00, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
redirect to Zirakpur where there are several references to this as a subsection of some sort (the article is pretty unclear). There is a odd discontinuity in the city street gird which may indicate that this was built separately and then surrounded, but I cannot be sure without words. Mangoe (talk) 21:49, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What is the Zirakpur article going to say about it though? Since I'm not sure whether this is a village or what, the cited reference is dead and contains absolutely nothing. Such locality stub articles should be deleted imo as they contribute nothing to Wikipedia. FujaFula (talk) 22:43, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
