Template:Did you know nominations/Ramesh Sumant Mehta


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:52, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Ramesh Sumant Mehta

 * ... that Ramesh Sumant Mehta was the first chairman of the pollution control board of Gujarat state of India? Source: Parikh, Dinesh (January 2002). Thaker, Dhirubhai, ed. ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ [Gujarati Encyclopedia] (in Gujarati). XV (1st ed.). Ahmedabad: Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust. pp. 527–528.
 * Reviewed: Sumedhanand Saraswati

Created by Nizil Shah (talk). Self-nominated at 07:31, 23 February 2019 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Can a better hook be proposed here? It's just not very interesting, to be honest. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 10:37, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * It was difficult to find a good hook. Let me try with another one. Feel free to propose new hook.-Nizil (talk) 05:03, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented the largest municipal drainage system in India?


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Full review needed now that new hook has been proposed. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:09, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Article meets the general DYK article requirements and is free of close paraphrasing. ALT1 is interesting and cited to an offline source. This will be good to go once a QPQ is done. Just a clarification though: is that municipal drainage system still the largest in India, or was it only at the time of his tenure? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 02:08, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the review. QPQ added. I could not find which is the largest municipal drainage system in India now but assume that Delhi had the largest at the time of his tenure. Should we reword the hook?-Nizil (talk) 04:22, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think the hook could be reworded. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 13:25, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ALT1a: ... that Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented the largest municipal drainage system in India as of 1958?
 * Reworded.-Nizil (talk) 07:00, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * What about something like this?
 * ALT2 ... that during his tenure as chairman of the pollution control board of Gujarat, Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented what was at the time the largest municipal drainage system in India?
 * The wording would of course depend on if the drainage system remains the largest to this day. I might also need to ask for a second opinion from another editor (preferably Indian) on this. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:55, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * He implemented what was at the time the largest municipal drainage system in India in 1958 as the Chief Engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. He was appointed the first chairman of the pollution control board of Gujarat in 1975. So merging these two is a false statement. I believe that it must not be the largest drainage system anymore because it was built in 1958, 60 years ago. I have clarified it with as of 1958 in ALT1a.-Nizil (talk) 13:55, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Would you be fine with this?
 * ALT2b ... that Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented what was at the time the largest municipal drainage system in India?
 * ALT2c ... that while chief engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented what was at the time the largest municipal drainage system in India?
 * The "as of" wording feels awkward to me. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:11, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I am OK with both hooks. ALT2c is bit long btw.-Nizil (talk) 13:11, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg This will probably need a new reviewer then as I was involved in writing suggested hooks. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:21, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm a bit concerned about the subject's notability. The article largely relies on the Gujarati Encyclopedia article, which is a perfectly fine source, but the other two are not as high-quality. If the India Who's Who is anything like the usual Who's Who model which relies heavily on information provided by the subject, it isn't useable as an independent source. The third is obviously not independent (university website). do you have any other sources? – Teratix ₵ 13:16, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * . Hello. As long as notability is concerned, he is notable as per WP:NACADEMIC #6 because he served as the Vice Chancellor of the Sardar Patel University in Gujarat from 1970 to 1974. (Vice Chancellor is the highest-level administrative post at the university. Governor is the ex-officio chancellor.) The Gujarati Encyclopedia entry was the best single/quick source I could find. Gujarati books are not mostly digitalised and are mostly accessible only in the libraries. There must be other offline sources but I have not explored much. The Gujarati Encyclopedia source was made available to me by a resource exchange request. I can forward it by email if you want to verify it. Consider two other sources as supportive sources in English. I have no other offline source available right now.-Nizil (talk) 13:56, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, WP:NACADEMIC. The main reason I never bother to nominate undersourced academic bios for deletion. – Teratix ₵ 05:21, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

New reviewer as requested. The only concern with the article is that it is largely based on a single source, but this is not a DYK requirement, and notability has been established. Since I don't have access to the Gujarati Encyclopedia, I am AGF approving hook ALT2b or ALT2c, though I strongly prefer ALT2c since it establishes who Mehta is and gives some context for why he would be implementing municipal drainage systems. The article was new enough at the time of nomination, passes a copyvio check, and is long enough. It is reliably sourced, and hooks ALT2b and ALT2c are interesting and cited in the article. The nominator has also completed a QPQ. Ashorocetus (talk &#124;  contribs) 00:01, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. -Nizil (talk) 05:38, 21 May 2019 (UTC)


 * -- Absent other sources, the proposed hooks are disallowed under the purview of WP:EXCEPTIONAL. Regards, ~ Winged Blades Godric 13:37, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * With all due respect, I disagree that this would qualify as an extraordinary claim. It is not at all surprising or extraordinary to claim that the chief engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi would implement India's largest drainage system at the time, especially considering that Delhi is India's largest urban area. It strikes me as more of a "fun fact" than an extraordinary claim. If you have some reason to suspect that the Gujarati Encyclopedia is incorrect on this, or that Nizil is misrepresenting the encyclopedia's contents, then that should halt the nomination. Otherwise, I don't see how this would fall under WP:EXCEPTIONAL. Ashorocetus (talk &#124;  contribs) 18:06, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , I am very skeptical of promoting a bio to main page, that depends on a single source. FWIW, I have no doubts that Nizil is properly representing the sources. &#x222F; WBG converse 06:44, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ,, I created this article when I created articles on his parents Sharda Mehta and Sumant Mehta. Ramesh Sumant Mehta has served as a university chancellor and has been one of the pioneers in the field of water supply, drainage, waste management and pollution control in India. He was notable as per our guidelines so I decided to create one after I complete articles on his parents. The Gujarati Encyclopedia was the easiest and comprehensive source to create the article so I went forward with it. Very few Gujarati resources are available online so I had it scanned and sent to me by a friend via email. I can email it to anyone who want to verify the claims in the article. Gujarati Vishvakosh is considered very reliable encyclopedia in Gujarat. It has team of qualified content writers and editors from the relevant fields. It would be difficult to find other secondary Gujarati sources (no online/digitised sources) on him. The primary source (University website) was added because it is online and English source to at least verify that he was a vice chancellor. I know that the article largely depends on single source but as I said above it is the most reliable/comprehensive and easy one to find.-Nizil (talk) 05:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , thank you for the information., I wonder why, in your opinion, should a biography receive special treatment on this count? It is not a BLP. As I stated in my review, the DYK guidelines do not require the article to be multiply sourced. They also explicitly state that the article in question does not have to be complete or even all that good, it just has to be new, long enough, and must have inline citations. Yes, obviously it is much better to have multiple sources (Nizil, if you can find some other source to add, please do). But I would say for the fact in the hook, one reliable source is good enough since it is not a fact likely to be controversial. Ashorocetus (talk &#124;  contribs) 13:45, 24 May 2019 (UTC)


 * , cool. Feel free to proceed. &#x222F; WBG converse 14:45, 24 May 2019 (UTC)