Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anurag Kumar


 * 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 (non-admin closure), because notability has been confirmed. Ecoleetage (talk) 00:24, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Anurag Kumar

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Non-notable person. There was a previous AfD at Articles for deletion/Anurag kumar from october of 2006 with a no consensus keep, but nothing has been done to this article in the meantime to show that the professor is anything more than a run-of-the-mill professor doing his job. Corvus cornix talk  18:09, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Add to this nomination, his non-notable novel, Recalcitrance (novel). Corvus cornix talk  18:10, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The novel should be listed under a separate AfD. The issues of Kurmar's academic notability and notability of his novel are very different and should be discussed separately. Nsk92 (talk) 19:33, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- Pete.Hurd (talk) 18:59, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. He is an elected fellow of IEEE, as confirmed here. I think that alone is enough to signify notability per WP:PROF. The CV on his website also says that he is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), and has been a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). That is also very good. GoogleScholar and GoogleBooks searches return pretty respectable results. Satisfies WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 19:21, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added a link verifying him being an IEEE fellow to the article. Nsk92 (talk) 19:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I have added a link confirming that he is a Fellow of INAE to the article. I tried to look up the list of fellows at the INSA website, but the website is malfunctioning for the moment and could not be searched. Still, there is little doubt that the info about being an INSA Fellow listed in his bio-sketch at is actually correct. Nsk92 (talk) 20:11, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, the INSA website is working fine now. I have added a link confirming that he is an elected Fellow of INSA to the main article. Nsk92 (talk) 11:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep both; the biographical article as notability has been established per WP:PROF and the novel article because it has been improperly nominated and should be nominated separately. 23skidoo (talk) 19:53, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per the IEEE Fellow. The IEEE recognizes him as one of their most notable members; who are we to argue? —David Eppstein (talk) 23:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per David Eppstein. Stifle (talk) 19:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Dear People you do not realize that Anurag Kumar Prof. and Anurag Kumar are two separate people one a scientist and another an author. So whay are you confusing both to them. Recalcitrance novel has just come out and is on sale on ebay. It is not on sale on Amazon just now because amazon requires books to be based in Europe or USA and the novel is as yet in India only. Whay the long discussison. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aipbookslko (talk • contribs) 07:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.