Deletion of Dappaankuthu

Comment: It is a form of dance (like Bharatanatyam Kathak Kathakali Kuchipudi Manipuri dance|Manipuri Mohiniaattam Odissi Sattriya dance|Sattriya This is a well known form of dance in Tamil Nadu and is certainly notable. The only problem here is that this kind of dance is being performed as well as patroned by the masses. Most of the Wikipedians belong to the elite class of Tamil Nadu, and hence may not have heard about this. As per the #Notability_is_not_subjective | Guidelines, ''Subjective evaluations are not relevant for determining whether a topic warrants inclusion in Wikipedia. Notability criteria do not equate to personal or biased considerations, such as: "never heard of this", "an interesting article", "topic deserves attention", "not famous enough", "very important issue", "popular", "I like it", "only of interest to some group", etc. Notability is not judged by Wikipedia editors directly. The inclusion of topics on Wikipedia is a reflection of whether those topics have been included in reliable published works. Other authors, scholars, or journalists have decided whether to give attention to a topic, and in their expertise have researched and checked the information about it. Thus, the primary notability criterion is a way to determine whether "the world" has judged a topic to be notable. This is unrelated to whether a Wikipedia editor personally finds the subject remarkable or worthy
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: See Mohiniaattam That is a form of dance like the subject of this article. That article does not have any references. But that has not been listed as OR or called unencyclopedic. The reason is because Wikipedian editors know about that dance and hence do not ask for a reference. But this form of dance is being practicised by the Illiterate masses. Hence this immediately becomes "unencyclopedic". When references are cited, it will become "non-notable" while Mohiniattam will continue to be both encyclopedic as well as notable..... This is what is called as  | Systemic Bias My comments are just to highlight the fact that we have not still eliminated the Systemic Bias from Wikipedia, and even though this is considered to be an Encyclopedia, Wikipedia is turning out to be the domain of "few selected people". And this trend is not good for the project and will be detrimental to the Wikipedia in long run
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Systemic bias (WP:CSB)

Comment: When I created this article back in 2005, there weren't many references online for this cultural practice. Now that there are, I hardly think it qualifies as  or . I have deleted the Steps section since I myself felt that was more like a how-to than a neutral description. As a former frequent editor of the article, I feel this cultural practice is notable enough to be documented. However, I do see recurring problems with the article in that it tends to become more of a how-to, written for a narrow audience comprised of people who have lived in Chennai at some point. I'll keep it more neutral when I edit
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:OR)