Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amit Majmudar


 * 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  Keep. There is a rough consensus below that the additional sources proffered during the course of the AfD are sufficient to establish notability. Eluchil404 (talk) 06:52, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Amit Majmudar

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Not notable; has written a couple books and poems none of which appear to be of encyclopedic value Mdude04 (talk) 03:46, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Creating deletion discussion for Amit Majmudar
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 * Delete perhaps at best as my searches found a few links but this is still questionable for WP:CREATIVE. SwisterTwister   talk  02:42, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment – Is your !vote based upon just viewing the links and guessing that the coverage was not substantial, perhaps based upon how many times the subject's name appears in source summaries, or did you actually read the articles? I found many links by using the find sources template atop and then actually reading the articles. North America1000 14:03, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:29, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete There is not significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Swangtgd (talk) 21:10, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment – Actually, that's not correct. Please see the sources I have provided below. Also pinging other users here to review sources: . North America1000 08:52, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:25, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

 References
 * Keep – The subject passes point #3 of WP:NAUTHOR because his works have received "multiple independent periodical articles or reviews" and also meets WP:BASIC.


 * Review : "Book Review: 'Partitions'". NPR.
 * Review : "Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar". The New York Times.
 * Review : "Amit Majmudar's 'The Abundance' trades fake family happiness for something real". The Plain Dealer.
 * Review : "Four lives displaced by the dividing of India; Books and Authors". The Seattle Times.
 * Review : "Literary Fiction". Daily Mail.
 * Review : "A New Wave". The Virginian-Pilot.
 * Review : "3 books about restless Indians". The Washington Post.
 * Review : "Amit Majmudar puts the 1947 'Partitions' on a human scale: New in Paperback". The Plain Dealer.
 * "Indian American Novelist Amit Majmudar Named Ohio’s First Poet Laureate". India West.
 * "Ohio’s first official poet says writing isn’t work". The Columbus Dispatch.
 * "To Take Out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician". Time.
 * Also, while a primary source, Smithsonian Magazine has published some of his works: ""Pattern and Snarl" – A New Poem by Amit Majmudar".


 * – The subject is clearly notable per Wikipedia's standards. Most of the sources above were found by using links in the Find sources template above. It makes no sense for this article to be deleted per a lack of source searching that includes the viewing and actual reading of the sources that are available about the subject and his works. See also WP:BEFORE and WP:NEXIST. North America1000 08:51, 30 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep as subject meets WP:GNG and WP:CREATIVE as evidence by references provided by  above. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:01, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment, here are some more reviews further showing that WP:ANYBIO is also met: The Abundance - "The narrative is slow, but sumptuous with recipes and reflection. Mr Majmudar, who is also a poet, imbues his prose with phrases and metaphors that linger with the warmth of spices." - The Economist, indeed based on the reviews (by Booklist, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly) listed at amazon here a separate book article could be created, Partitions - "Majmudar writes with the incisive prose of a poet and the unflinching eye of a scientist" and "The book’s flaw — if it’s a flaw — is that we’re so close to our subjects at every moment that we lose sight of the river they’re swept away by" - Hyphen magazine , and some more by (oh, oh) those trade magazines kirkus "In his magnificent first novel" and "Written with piercing beauty, alive with moral passion and sorrowful insight—a rueful masterpiece." - ; and pw "Poet Majmudar's unconvincing debut novel" - and "Tedious though not clumsy, ... but even the dark ending can't shake the notion that the whole endeavor feels like a semisanitized and oversensationalized theme park ride." - , and pw reviewing Dothead: Poems, "Aided by his unforgiving eye and a seemingly effortless ability to electrify his images, he composes a portrait of humankind that exposes its overreliance on the persuasive strength of fear." and "But throughout Majmudar keeps focused on one task: exposing what he views as the hollow American claims to being a “melting pot,” as only those who appease the fickle identity of an American are guaranteed their own freedom." - . Coolabahapple (talk) 14:37, 1 April 2016 (UTC)


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