Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CA. T.N. Manoharan


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The result was   keep. JForget 02:06, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

CA. T.N. Manoharan

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Doesn't seem notable enough for inclusion. A former president of the ICAI, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, it doesn't seem that he is independently notable outside that position. I'm not even convinced the position itself is notable outside the organisation. The page, and similarly named versions of it have been deleted in the past for being copyright violations, but this page doesn't seem to suffer those same problems (other than the image being a blatant copyright violation.) Canterbury Tail   talk  13:28, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

ICAI is the regulator of accounting and auditing profession in India. It has more than 1,60,000 members and over 6,00,000 students.This year he has been awarded the most prestigious award in india 'Padma Shri award' by government of india. He became very popular after he was appointed by government in the board of scam-hit Satyam Computers. Every thing is easily verifiable.Why isn't he meeting notability criteria? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishnu1.218 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Note that their exist a Wikipedia page about another Past president of ICAI - Uttam Prakash Agarwal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishnu1.218 (talk • contribs) 13:21, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

considering the above please remove the deletion proposal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishnu1.218 (talk • contribs) 13:25, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep. As a former president of ICAI, i believe he meets #3 or 6 for WP:PROF. ( has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association and has held a major highest-level elected or appointed academic post at an academic institution or major academic society.). ICAI is the Academic regulatory body in India for Chartered Accountants. Similar to American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in America. And it is equivalent to a university, since it sets the curriculum and administers the tests. Being a winner of the Padma Shri (fourth highest civilian award in India) means he meets #2 of WP:PROF. With his involvement in the Govt rescue of Mahindra Satyam, he has received widespread coverage in Indian media. Gnews has 193 hits for him (a person with a profile like his will always be covered by Indian financial media) and thus will easily satisfy WP:GNG. That said article is a horrible mess and a copyvio problem as well. I will try to cleanup and stub the article. (and it has to be moved to T .N. Manoharan) Done--Sodabottle (talk) 15:02, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep President of any major national professional association is notable,  academic or otherwise.    DGG ( talk ) 21:45, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. There's no need to look beyond the Padma Shri award, which has been awarded to only 2336 people in over 50 years in a country with a current population of over a billion, to see that the subject passes WP:ANYBIO criterion 1. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:24, 27 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment - Should have looked closer, I never realised the significance of the award. Canterbury Tail   talk  12:31, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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