Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chetan Gawande


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  16:31, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Chetan Gawande

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This is a one-sentence stub about a mayor of a small municipality in India. The sourcing is all in Marathi, and a helpful editor who speaks it confirmed that the sources do not appear to establish notability and may not even be WP:RS. I have managed to find only one English-language secondary source that mentions the subject (here), but this also does little more than simply acknowledge the election result. If someone can find sources for the subject's notability, we can expand and keep the article, but at present, I'm not sure that's possible. Armadillo pteryx  02:15, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. - hako9 (talk) 05:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. - hako9 (talk) 05:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep First source Lokmat is a reliable source, leading newspaper of Marathi.  The person is elected a mayor for five years of city of ~600000 population.  Not much information available at present, but the article may build gradually over time.  GD (talk) 13:46, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Do you see anything in the sourcing that shows the subject satisfies WP:NPOL? Being an elected official at the city level is not, by itself, enough to establish notability. Armadillo  pteryx  23:11, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete disagree that the first source indicates notability. Although the newspaper might be a reliable (local) newspaper, the coverage is routine: any elected official would've gotten the same brief "they were elected" statement., the argument "the article may build gradually over time" is not a valid argument against deletion: see WP:ATA. Sam-2727 (talk) 22:55, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 17:46, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - zero evidence of notability; doesn't automatically meet NPOL Spiderone  22:11, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak delete: Local body officials do not satisfy NPOL. However, they might receive adequate coverage in their term. In the absence of WP:SIGCOV, I'm tending to leaning delete. --Ab207 (talk) 16:34, 2 September 2020 (UTC)


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