Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amitabh thakur


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The result was   delete. Tone 11:38, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Amitabh thakur

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Notability Rd232 talk 23:36, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete does not assert notability, fails WP:BIO. Aiken   &#9835;  01:19, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gist of it seems to be that he's a police officer, he pressed charges against a politician for assault, and he had to fight bureaucracy to get a leave of absence from his job to go back to school. Those don't seem to be the type of things that confer notability unless they're massive causes celebre generating a lot of media coverage. The refs are some short article that don't seem to correspond with that level of coverage. He's also an author, but there's no cite for that - no indication his books were published, sold large numbers, reviewed by significant publications, etc. No indication that his role in a local sports association conveys notability sufficient for an article. Searching on google, the hits for him seem to be social media profiles and a blog comment (as well as the articles cited and false hits for people who share his name). No articles link here. It doesn't seem like he's shown up in other articles, except when the editor who started the bio inserted him in a couple other articles. --JamesAM (talk) 01:31, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Hairhorn (talk) 02:01, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Not Delete. I once again strongly argue the case not to be deleted. I agree that the that he's a police officer is not relevant as such, but the fact that he pressed charges against a politician for assault is a major one. This is because the politician was a truly powerful one and it needed lots of courage to do so. Secondly, it had become a huge political and social issue at that time, getting coverage in vernacular media and Television. Again the fact that he had to fight bureaucracy to get a leave is no small matter and has become a great cause, gaining lots of media coverage in the local language ie Hindi.  Hence it was "massive causes celebre generating a lot of media coverage." The refs are some short article that don't seem to correspond with that level of coverage. Author and sports association are not that significant but only go on to add somerthing about him. I present links to a few Hindi websites to make my point clear-

http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/news/local/jharkhand/4_8_6074763_1.html

http://upnewslive.com/?p=4973

http://www4.jagran.com/news.aspx?id=619715&code=30584788

http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4371280.cms?prtpage=1

They are all Articles belonging to widely-circulating important Hindi newspapers. There are many other Hindi newspaper coverage which are not on web. In sum to ignore this and to call it not notable would seem to be unfair --nutanthakurlko (talk) 09:11, 14 March 2010 (IST) They are all Articles belonging to widely-circulating important Hindi newspapers. There are many other Hindi newspaper coverage which are not on web. In sum to ignore this and to call it not notable would seem to be unfair —Preceding unsigned comment added by James.brown100 (talk • contribs) 04:25, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. My db-bio tag was removed.  Woogee (talk) 19:42, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * — James.brown100 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Woogee (talk) 06:32, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you tell us what they say? Woogee (talk) 06:32, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
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