Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Balaji Viswanathan


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 00:28, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Balaji Viswanathan

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Balaji Vishwanathan is a popular writer on Quora, but apart from that he is not notable enough to meet WP:BLP. Almost all the references in the current article are user-generated content, and therefore are unreliable, and I cannot find reputable, neutral sources to use to write a BLP of the subject. Therefore, I propose this article for deletion. — Stringy Acid (talk) 17:59, 7 March 2017 (UTC)


 * He is active speaker in India with covering almost all IITs and BITS, he is regularly invited to tech events and i think this wikipedia is best way for people to know who their speaker is. he has been covered by indian media multiple times.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.133.246.126 (talk) 18:41, 11 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Reply Speaking at IITs and BITS is not notable -- professors at these institutes do that every day, and that alone doesn't make them notable enough to merit a Wikipedia article. I could only find this article on a relatively unknown online-only news website that focuses on Balaji Vishwanathan. There are some other sources (e.g., this Scroll.in article) that briefly mention him.  However, none of this is equivalent to "multiple" coverage by the Indian media. — Stringy Acid (talk) 21:00, 11 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Reply    Mitra is built completely in his supervision. I know being popular in social media isn't sufficient, but he is popular and notable within Indian college youth, and it because of his active participation in events and debates, i think this article is really helpful for people to know about him, moreover people are even searching for his net worth on google, which means a lot of people want to know more about him.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.133.246.120 (talk) 08:53, 13 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Reply Article 1 only briefly mentions Vishwanathan and his startup (among various other startups). Articles 2 and 3, which cover the same "StartAP fest" does not mention Vishwanathan anywhere. Article 4 also doesn't mention Vishwanathan, but briefly mentions a robot that his company invented (among many other robots).  Again, very brief coverage such as this is not sufficient to pass WP:BLP (also see WP:TOSOON).  About the argument that people would like to know about Vishwanathan -- people like to know about all kinds of things (e.g., how to make methamphetamine), but that doesn't mean that all such topics deserve an article on Wikipedia. Other claims (e.g., his popularity with the youth), require reliable independent sources. — Stringy Acid (talk) 22:29, 13 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:08, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:08, 7 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Amazon.com produce listings and LinkedIn pages are not the stuff to pass GNG with.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:57, 8 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Per nominator. Variation 25.2 (talk) 08:57, 13 March 2017 (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.