Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C. Sylendra Babu (2nd nomination)


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The result was no consensus. WP:NPASR. T. Canens (talk) 02:27, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

C. Sylendra Babu
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The article sheds no light on notability and a Google gives lots of Indian news articles, but they are largely passing police references or about charity runs. His rank is certainly senior, but from what I can see it isn't top rank, although I could be wrong. It reads like a badly written biography about a random unknown person. I find it strange how this article has been on wiki for almost 9 years! UaMaol (talk) 08:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
 * 'Comment — A director general of police (DGP) is certainly a senior Indian Police Service officer and is going to be one of the senior-most officers of his cadres, as far as rank is concerned, a DGP is more or less analogous to a lieutenant general or an additional secretary to the Government of India; vide: the Indian order of precedence]. Not going to !vote on this, though. Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 21:03, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

Unsigned comment by: Special:Contribs/27.57.34.3 (10:16, 10 May 2019)
 * 'Comment — The Director General of Police is the highest ranking official in the Indian Police Service. With less than 100 officers of the same rank serving across various states in India.
 * If he is the highest ranking official in the IPS, then how can there be less than 100 others with the same rank as him? Surely enough there would be one if it were the highest rank, would it not? The rank in question appears to be more alike the Chief constable in the UK and CD's, each in charge of a territorial police force. There are 53 of these, and much alike the Indian counterpart, being one alone does not make a person notable enough to have an article. Of that 53, there are 17 with articles, most of these struggle with notability. UaMaol (talk) 02:04, 15 May 2019 (UTC)


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<div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:21, 17 May 2019 (UTC) <div class="xfd_relist" style="border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 25px;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Definitely passes WP:BIO, WP:ANYBIO, holding a higher (notable) position in police force, DGP is the apex rank in Indian Police Service in The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times.-- PA TH   SL OP U  14:12, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   12:42, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge the article with main article Indian Police Service. The subject is notable but it should merge with the main article.Forest90 (talk) 13:53, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose merge. The subject of this article is Director General of the Railway Police which puts him in the range of possibly notable depending on what he’s done. I can’t see any content here that would warrant being merged into a general article on the police. Mccapra (talk) 03:57, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment The subject of this article has a senior job but nothing about his career has any proper source, so his notability in that respect is not established. The rest of the article is about awards he’s won, at least some of which may be notable, and about sports and charity work. All of this together may make him generally notable but I’ve done a random check on some of the refs from The Hindu. In some cases the link goes straight to a news item but in others it goes to a general archive page and when I search on the date, no story shows with the title stated in the ref section of the article. If we’re keeping it, it will need significant trimming. Mccapra (talk) 03:57, 25 May 2019 (UTC)


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