User:Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI/XfD log

January 2022

 * Sadanand Menon: nominated at AfD; notified 06:33, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Going by GNG and the notability guidelines for creative professionals and for teachers in higher education, the subject does not seem notable. Most attention in RSes has been about allegations of sexual misconduct, and the only thing in the article apart from the lead is a section about those allegations. Seeing as he's not been convicted of anything and seems to be a fairly low-profile individual, the section is a BLPvio; apart from that, there is no real substance in the article. There is only ref from RS that's directly about him (cite no. 1) and even that is very bare-bones. Searches on JSTOR and TWL return nothing of note either, so the article should be deleted.

November 2023

 * 2023 Special Session of the Parliament of India: nominated at AfD; notified 15:37, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: In India, Parliament sits at least three times a year - in the Budget, Monsoon, and Winter sessions. These sessions last for months, and discuss and promulgate many pieces of legislation, similar to the sessions of other countries. When even the Budget sessions, arguably the most important parliamentary sessions, do not get their own individual articles, I fail to see how this five-day session, that passed one single piece of legislation, is notable. Most of the article is either a list of individual statements and minor speeches made by politicians or a load of media speculation that turned out to be nothingburgers. We shouldn't include these since WP is NOTNEWS (nor is it the Hansard).There are two, and only two, notable things in this article, and none are inherent to this special session - Parliament started functioning in a new building, and the Women's Reservation Bill was passed as the 106th Amendment. The Amendment already has its own article, and the information about the inauguration of the building more properly belongs to the New Parliament House, New Delhi article. Other articles that can absorb info from here include 17th Lok Sabha and second Modi ministry. The article subject - the special session itself - shows no enduring relevance; searches for "special session" dropped sharply after the close of the session, and even the sources themselves talk less about the importance of the special session and more about the Amendment. Thus, in my view, the article should be deleted. W. Tell DCCXLVI ( talk to me!/c ) 15:37, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

June 2024

 * Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago: nominated at AfD; notified 06:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) * Reason: Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago may well be a thing, but I struggle to see where this article even addresses it. It is written like an essay and attempts to divine nationalism from an arbitrary selection of social and cultural issues, apparently with mostly irrelevant sourcing. For example source [3] is attached to the claim that calypso music is a form of Trinbagonian nationalism... the source, besides not really being an RS, says nothing of the sort. The dispute with Barbados should more properly be in Barbados-Trinidad and Tobago relations and the entire "Evolution" section, besides mostly being SYNTH, has content that should really be in LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago. There is no RS that unifies these disparate topics - Trinbagonian culture, the dispute with Barbados, and LGBT rights - into a single topic about nationalism in the country. Thus, in my view, the article should be deleted.