Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Akash B. Chandran


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 22:20, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Akash B. Chandran

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Non notable subject. References are highly promotional and seems like connected sources. Also nothing special to be included in Wikipedia. Editor General of Wiki (talk) 18:58, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

I checked his facebook profile and he's quite well known in his area (Kerala) and there are more articles about him on his verified Facebook Page/Profile. https://www.facebook.com/ceoakashbchandran https://www.facebook.com/ceoakashbc/

Here're the articles that I found from his fb profile: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=385850574819050&set=a.579749752095797.1073741845.100001823337636&type=3&theater — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.92.2.37 (talk) 19:24, 18 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete promo piece on non-notable programmer. The The Hindu article is fairly brief and shallow, not the kind of in-depth coverage that's needed. Facebook links are not relible sources. --bonadea contributions talk 20:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Read it here : http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/prolific-teenage-web-designer/article3604966.ece
 * Keep I am from Kerala too. He is quite famous here for being a young entrepreneur. I have also found another online reference article from Hindu which was published on the year of 2012.

It clearly says that he started web designing from the age of 13 and have made over 50 websites by the age of 15, which is something special for someone at that age. He also got 29k followers on his facebook profile too. So I think this wiki page should not be deleted and this article deserves to be on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndpillai (talk • contribs) 20:58, 18 June 2018 (UTC) — Ndpillai (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * That article is also very brief and in addition it is a city edition of the paper, which amounts to local coverage. --bonadea contributions talk 21:07, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

There are lots of articles about him in our State(Kerala) Newspapers. I am mentioning some of them below :


 * https://i.imgur.com/2vnvKAG.png -  Janmabhumi Newspaper
 * https://i.imgur.com/YVEq8r1.png -  Malayala Manorama Newspaper
 * https://i.imgur.com/h0nXi9L.png -  The Economy Magazine -  Young Turks
 * https://i.imgur.com/oSVGHFu.png -  Malayala Manorama Newspaper -  Metro Manorama
 * https://i.imgur.com/rpKYwXP.png -  Mathrubhumi Newspaper -  Nagaram
 * http://www.thehindu.com/Apps-by-19-year-old-hit-bullseye - The Hindu Newspaper

The above newspaper articles are from Kerala newspapers such as Malayala Manorama, Mathrubhumi, Janmabhumi which don't have any online versions but I can surely say that this guy is famous in our place Kerala. Those are from the top newspapers in Kerala. You can see the full list of Malayalam(Kerala) Newspapers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Malayalam-language_newspapers.

From those Malayalam articles, the main points are :


 * 1) He started doing web designing works from the age of 13 and have made about 50 websites by the age of 15.
 * 2) He makes about 5 Lakhs(A half million) per month at the age of 19 via web designing and his other businesses.
 * 3) He received a platinum award for excellence in web designing from World Wide Web Awards Organization From USA.
 * 4) At the age of 19, he developed some viral facebook apps which have been used by 10 lakh(1 Million) people within a week.

So from all those points, it is very clear that he deserves to be on the wiki. If there are any Malayalees, please comment on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndpillai (talk • contribs) 09:26, 19 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per bonadea above, lacking evidence of independent in depth coverage as required by the WP:GNG and this appears to be a case of WP:BLP1E. GSS (talk |c|em ) 17:41, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:50, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:50, 21 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete no evidence of in-depth coverage.--regentspark (comment) 12:53, 21 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep.     I realize that a lot of of bad articles about web developers are submitteto Wikipedia and then rejected. I think that this article should be kept because it is backed up by multiple reliable sources. The Hindu is a national newspaper and a newspaper of record. It is a reliable source and cannot be dismissed as local. Of the press clippings referred to above by Ndpillai, non-English sources are as good as English-language ones. Offline references (such as clippings that someone scalled) are as good as online ones. They all appear to be reliable sources. One of the Malayalam-language newspapers, Malayala Manorama, is the fourth-most-popular newspaper in India with circulation of 2,388,886 and an average issue readership of more than 8.8 million. I can't run the scans through Google Translate, but I would suggest WP:AGF and consider that the clippings are much more than passing mentions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 20:43, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * As already pointed out, city editions of The Hindu and other national newspapers are considered local coverage. There are plenty of RSN discussions on that topic. --bonadea contributions talk 20:47, 25 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom and . Wikipedia isn't an advertisement venue for anything, much less unencycopedic nonsense. CHRISSY MAD  ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  01:19, 26 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete I can't even believe that we have to discuss this. It's an article about a bachelor's student. The fact that he is talented and has developed some good software is certainly enough reason for local newspapers to write about him, but it does not establish notability in Wikipedia. Goharshady (talk) 13:55, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. Sir Joseph (talk) 20:14, 26 June 2018 (UTC)


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