Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Sanjeev Naik


 * 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The result was   keep or "nomination withdrawn", take your pick (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 03:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Sanjeev Naik

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Bringing to AfD because PROD tag was removed. This article, written as an advert, is about an Indian mayor, but does not assert the person's notability and does not appear to meet wp:politician. There's paragraphs of the person's accomplishments here, but most is pure puffery and not verified... for instance, what does it mean to "conceptualize" a sewage plant? Changing to Keep per MuggledThud's helpful sourcing.  Flying Toaster  05:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. Probably passes WP:POLITICIAN as mayor of Navi Mumbai ("Generally speaking, mayors are likely to meet this criterion"), but I agree that some sources are needed. Tevildo (talk) 08:59, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  —  Salih  ( talk ) 09:35, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename to Sanjeev Naik per WP:NAME: subject is notable as a politician and there are numerous Ghits from WP:RS. The article will need a great deal of cleanup to remove vanity prose and unsourced assertions, and will likely need ongoing admin to stop them re-appearing: the author has been spamming the subject widely on WP (see User talk:Nishantfoods and Special:Contributions/Nishantfoods. Also note that the author has attempted to remove the AFD tag twice three times already. MuffledThud (talk) 09:44, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree re monitoring & protection. If the decision here is keep, I'll add this to my watchlist.  Flying  Toaster  13:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I see from the blogosphere that the subject is the candidate in an election, due to be held 4 days from now, which explains the frantic spamming and puffery. I've now re-written it as a stub: please feel free to contribute. MuffledThud (talk) 16:53, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:00, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep He was mayor of New Mubai, a city now of 900,000, which if he were mayor now would certainly be large enough,  but the article is no uninformative that i do not know its size when he was mayor,  which may have been much smaller, or even when he was mayor. The actual content of the article needs some looking to, for it is not relevant to put in irrelevant material to give the impression of references; there are some BLP problems. Incidentally, the article on the city is quite unsatisfactory-- a good deal of it is copy vio of http://www.navimumbaiindia.com/DGG (talk) 04:21, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: notable as mayor. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. In its present form, the article is entirely negative and seems to be an attack page. Currently breaches WP:NPOV and WP:BLP. WWGB (talk) 07:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I agree: more positive achievements should certainly be added here. The creator of the article has repeatedly asserted Naik's involvement in the building of the Morbe dam to provide local water, local waste management initiatives, large-scale literacy initiatives and others: see the edit history for details. So far I've only been able to find info about this on blogs & similarly unreliable sources which don't meet WP:RS, but we should keep looking. The mainstream press in India seem to carry mainly negative stories about him, which might reflect press bias rather than the subject's actual achievements in office. MuffledThud (talk) 12:18, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep Notable, mayor of a major city. Hekerui (talk) 07:21, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep but move to Sanjeev Naik as per WP:NAME. Notable as a mayor of Navi Mumbai and there are several secondary sources. Care has to be taken though that this does become a hagiography or an attack piece. Abecedare (talk) 01:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


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