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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Sungodtemple ( talk) 18:44, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
National Scholarship Portal
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The National Scholarship Portal itself appears to be notable by WP:WEB, with reasonable news coverage, but this article is actually a list of scholarships offered by central and state governments, and how-to information. It's mostly referenced by the commercial website "buddy4study.com", and to some extent the government website Vikaspedia, and it's larded with inline external links. No doubt this could be useful to students, and the article could be renamed, but it's not an encyclopaedia article, and Wikipedia:NOTDIRECTORY. Storchy ( talk) 12:44, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Websites, and India. Storchy ( talk) 12:44, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- Keep per WP:AFDISNOTCLEANUP. The portal does seem to be notable per WP:WEB and WP:GNG. The launch of the mobile app in particular seems to have generated a lot of coverage [1] [2]. While looking for sources for this article is moderately difficult due to a million "how to apply for NSP scholarship" articles, there definitely is significant coverage in reliable sources for the portal. W 42 15:59, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- Keep. The nominator seems to concede that the topic is notable, and that only the content is the problem. That can be fixed and doesn't warrant deletion. If necessary, it can be draftified to allow for it to be fixed, but deletion is not necessary. 331dot ( talk) 16:03, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
- Nomination withdrawn. You're both right. Sorry. I should have simply tried to clean it up. Storchy ( talk) 16:04, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
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