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The result was merge to Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 23:16, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Deprodded by the creator, Abhilasha Will (talk · contribs), without explanation or improvement. The original concern, by Dan arndt (talk · contribs), read: Fails WP:NBOOK, lacks any reliable secondary sources. The creator has had several problematic pages deleted or nominated for deletion, including an article about the same topic that was speedy deleted as a copyright violation. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete, all the references are either book retail websites, including eBay and Amazon, which are not acceptable sources or about the author, with mentions in passing about the dictionary or are all about the author but don’t mention the dictionary at all. Dan arndt (talk) 01:51, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Per nom. Curbon7 (talk) 05:28, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/redirect to Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, the book's author, per Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Alternatives to deletion. Here are two sources I found that discuss the book (but do not qualify as significant coverage):
  1. Popovski, Vesselin; Reichberg, Gregory M.; Turner, Nicholas, eds. (2009). World Religions and Norms of War. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. p. 77. ISBN 9789280811636. Retrieved 2021-06-19.

     The book notes, "Significantly, in the English - Sinhalese Dictionary that Malalasekera compiled and published in 1948 – a dictionary widely used today by students of English in Sri Lanka - the English term “ holy war ” is translated specifically with the term"

  2. Malalasekera, Gunapala Piyasena; Mutukumāra, Nemsiri (1981). Tribute to Malalasekera: A Collection of Messages, Appreciations & Pen Portraits in Honour of Professor Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera. Colombo: Mutukumara. p. 246. OCLC 614934449. Retrieved 2021-06-19.

     The book notes: "I should like to mention also his English- Sinhalese Dictionary (1948), which I can safely say, speaking as a foreigner, is much superior to any other English- Sinhala dictionary I know — it is a pity he was never able to produce a companion Sinhala-English dictionary, which is still lacking to us even today."

  There may be print sources and Sinhala sources that provide significant coverage of the book. In the absence of finding those sources, a merge to Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera per Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Alternatives to deletion should be done instead of deletion.

  Cunard (talk) 23:57, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment would support a Merge/redirect for the reasons as outlined by Cunard above. Dan arndt (talk) 03:38, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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