Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chaminda Hettiarachchi


 * 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   delete. JForget 02:36, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Chaminda Hettiarachchi

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This BLP appears to fail PEOPLE guidance, the most potentially notable claim is being President and Executive Director of the Sri Lanka Diaspora Professional Association which is not, of itself, notable. A search for independent reliable sources reveals little. I find this book: which has a tangential mention in a list of other names for left-wing activists and a couple of tangential mentions on Google News but nothing that would constitutes substantial impact. There is nothing significant on GScholar to indicate that a rationale using PROF would be appropriate. Ash (talk) 11:08, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions.  -- Ash (talk) 11:10, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- Ash (talk) 11:11, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete It is a little difficult to assess this, as of the 8 citations given 7 were dead links. I managed to find the page which one of them was evidently intended to link to and corrected the citation, but that still gives us only two references. However, neither of those gives substantial coverage. One of them is a report of a discussion, in which there is a brief mention of a contribution to the discussion by Chaminda Hettiarachchi among several dozen contributions mentioned. In the absence of adequate coverage cited in the article I have made my own searches. I found facebook, linkedin, freebase, Wikipedia, etc, but most of the other pages I found made only passing mentions of Chaminda Hettiarachchi. What is more, even if we were able to find better sources, the information in the article does not suggest that he comes anywhere near to satisfying WP:ACADEMIC. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:54, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Very little coverage. The article says he is currently attached to University of Sri Jayewardenepura, but he is not listed there as faculty.  --Bejnar (talk) 19:55, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I suspect this may be an autobiography by possibly.--  Chanaka L  ( talk ) 03:57, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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