Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Andem

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The result of the debate was delete. howcheng {chat} 08:09, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Andem

nnsurname. I hail from Andhra Pradesh and I can vouch that it is not notable. Also, it does not have much of useful information. While Google gives 159,000 hits, the first 10 are not abt this context (have a heart guys, can't go through all the links, :) right?) Gurubrahma 16:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - I'm getting way too many google hits. Adding in India gives me 15,300, while adding in name gives me 25,100. Adding both gives me 369. But given that a surname is a bit hard to track down using Google, I'd say its got enough to be worth an article. But perhaps we need a few examples of famous people to give who have a surname of Andem? In a similar way to Schmuck (which IMO should be about the Yiddish word, not about the German last name). But I don't know what the criteria is for surnames, so until that's pointed out to me, this looks as notable as the Schmuck surname, so should be in here. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 16:46, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment If you include both, you get 369 hits but none in the first page is about the surname. If you replace India with Andhra (as it is a surname from Andhra as claimed in the article) [1], you get 20 hits of which hardly 5 have the surname. (btw, I did it for my surname for the same string and got 251 hits. My actual name alone within quotes gives 20 hits of which 18 are about me.) In a state that has 60 million people, "Andem" is but a spurious surname. --Gurubrahma 17:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete A search for "andem india andhra pradesh" on google returns 14 results, none of which describe the name. Bjelleklang 18:12, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Vikram Reddy Andem is mentioned at Tiny Encryption Algorithm and Statistical cryptanalysis, and William Andem was on Cameroon's team at Football World Cup 1998 (squads). TimBentley 02:50, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Surely Vikram Reddy Andem is notable, but Andem as a surname is not. William Andem is not even from India, so that Andem is different. btw, from the gogle search, it looks like ANDEM is a popular acronym. So, this article with this content should go and probly some other article on this name can come. --Gurubrahma 05:58, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Very unlikely to grow beyond the existing one line. --Vyzasatya 22:51, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete surnames are nn.  Grue  16:04, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Ganeshk 22:46, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

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