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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 10:36, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

James Kurian[edit]

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The article is clearly written as an advertisement, as both this article and its related Agricultural theme park article were created by and have been largely edited by User:Superbrain.jr. Neither this article or the other one are notable in my opinion, so I suggest they be deleted. CoolieCoolster (talk) 04:44, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 06:02, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 06:03, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete not notable, almost WP:G11. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 08:59, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as mere WP:PROMO for the resort http://mangomeadows.in/, for which I cannot establish notability. My searches on "James Kurian" fail to find reliable, secondary sources.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:58, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as WP:PROMO The info on this page and on Agricultural Theme Park seems purely promotional. I signed up on the January Guild of Copy Editors backlog elimination drive to edit the James Kurian article. The Agricultural Theme Park seems to be really about the "Mango Meadows" resort which would be a specific example of an agricultural theme park. There are examples in the States (and likely elsewhere) of at least loosely themed "Agricultural theme parks" perhaps not on the scale of Mango Meadows. Stateside, it is often called "agri-tourism."

See stateside examples and info:

1. Lamb's Farm, Libertyville, IL
2. Stades Farm and Market Theme Park McHenry, IL
3. Busy Barns Farm, Fort Atkinson, WI
4. Agritourism.agrisupportonline.com Agritourism site listing
5. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/02/us/a-new-cash-crop-the-farm-as-theme-park.html New York Times, A New Cash Crop: The Farm as Theme Park

Additionally, claims have been made about at least one other site being the "worlds first agricultural theme park" https://trip101.com/article/panaca-more-than-racing-pigs-in-colombia-s-1st-agriculture-theme-park

To suggest this person, with no other trace on the web, conceived of this idea is highly misleading. Mr. Kurian, whomever he is, did not invent the idea of the Agricultural theme park and should not be credited as such. His name does not even appear anywhere that I could find on any deep links for the Mango Meadows establishment.

I can't in good conscience provide copy editing on this article to make the tone sound more neutral, because I think that would make the article more misleading. I will withdraw this article from my list of working edits in the January backlog elimination drive for the Copy Editors guild. Curdigirl (talk) 03:53, 10 January 2017 (UTC)Curdigirl[reply]

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