Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Faisal Farooqui (2nd nomination)


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The result was redirect to MouthShut.com. Tone 08:41, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Faisal Farooqui
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I closed AfD1 as delete on 5 Feb 2017. Normally I would just list it for speedy as a recreation, except that it seems to have a complicated edit history past that date. I think as the consensus thought earlier, that the references are at best promotional interviews, and the attempts to defend the article by accusing us of prejudice against Indian source irrelevant--  newspapers in all countries, even ordinarily reliable ones, publish promotional interviews--the party notable in such cases is the press agent. There does not seem to be any actual accomplishments.  DGG ( talk ) 05:35, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:23, 15 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Strongly supports to Nominator DGG. No indication of notability. Priyanjali singh (talk) 09:16, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete not even close to being a notable businessman.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep Faisal Farooqui is a well known personality in India.
 * Some references about the subject:


 * Express Computer / Indian Express group : Mouthshut.com has built a robust technology infrastructure: Faisal Farooqui, Founder and CEO, MouthShut.com
 * Yourstory : Entrepreneur of the Week: Digital in the time of dotcom cholera - how Mouthshut.com's Faisal Farooqui orchestrated this spectacular scaling-up during the dotcom bust
 * The Economic Times: Food above all! Not just meetings, Mouthshut's Faisal Farooqui pitches in at the office canteen too
 * (The Economic Times is India's largest Business Newspaper. As of 2012, it is the world's second-most widely read English-language business newspaper, after The Wall Street Journal, with a readership of over 800,000.)
 * Business Standard: Newsmaker: Faisal Farooqui
 * The Economic Times: Section 66A of IT Act: We took up battle, big guys didn’t, says MouthShut founder Faisal Farooqui
 * Times of India : Let there be more light: Advance India’s clocks by half an hour for big economic, social and health benefits: Faisal Farooqui
 * Nine startup founders including Zomato's Deepinder Goyal appeal TRAI to preserve open internet
 * Faisal Farooqui along with other prominent startup founders have fought preserve open internet in India, and won against Facebook and Airtel (Big Telecom operator). There is lots of news coverage on this.


 * NDTV: Who Reviews the Reviewers? How India's Online Businesses Are Fighting Fake Reviews


 * The Economic Times Mouthshut deletes 80000 fake user profiles & reviews
 * Business Today : MouthShut deletes 80,000 fake profiles

Faisal Farooqui runs India's biggest customer reviews website called Mouthshut.com and have taken head on to fight against some of the biggest companies in the world, who are trying to take his venture down or trying to whitewash negative reviews by customers about various brands and products. I suspect there is a big organized racket trying to discredit him and his initiatives.

Faisal Farooqui's notability is well established. He is frequently quoted by prominent newspapers and appears in national televisions in India on various socio-economic issues and internet technologies.

--  Tinu  Cherian  - 06:10, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. --  Tinu  Cherian  - 07:03, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to MouthShut.com. The subject does not seem to have done anything notable apart from being MouthShut.com CEO ChunnuBhai (talk) 16:01, 19 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to MouthShut.com, as most of the limited coverage is in the context of running the company.--Hippeus (talk) 11:18, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


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