Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/G. N. Patil


 * 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. The keep rationales do not adequately address the request's BLP concerns. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 07:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

G. N. Patil

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This is a list of allegations masquerading and not a suitable biographical article. The subject is not even a state assemblymen, and does not seem to beet the standard of WP:POLITICIAN (the main claim to fame is that he is the brother of President of India Pratibha Patil but notability is not inherited and is certainly not an excuse for a BLP violations). The allegations themselves are covered in Vishram Patil murder case (which needs to be reviewed too). I plan to also nominate the following related articles for deletion, whcih have similar problems: All three were created during the period when Patil was nominated as a presidential candidate, and are a good illustration why WP:NOTNEWS is a good policy. Abecedare (talk) 21:06, 2 January 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  04:29, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Kisan Dhage,
 * Know Pratibha Patil
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  -- Abecedare (talk) 21:20, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  -- Abecedare (talk) 21:20, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep with cleanup work. There are two deletion points here. (1) is the claim of lack of notability. The article states that he is a member of the Indian National Congress. This seems to satisfy WP:POLITICIAN. (2) is the WP:BLP issues. These points are valid, but google news shows significant evidence that the "murder accusation" section is valid. It must be sourced but once that is done I see no reason to delete. (I may try to rescue this article with sources myself.) -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 21:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Er, being a member of Indian National Congress doesn't satisfy WP:POLITICIAN, for that the person needs to be an elected member of a legislative body (he lost the only election he contested), not a member of a political party. Not commenting on "other" notability right now as I haven't looked for sources yet. - Spaceman  Spiff  21:31, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note that Congress has had tens of millions of members, and that is not sufficient for notability. As for the murder allegations: (a) those are covered in Vishram Patil murder case, and (b) the enquiry into them has long ended and both the Bombay high court and the Supreme Court of India refused to order further investigation (wikipedia articles are really outdated  essentially a being used as and have become in effect a WP:COATRACK for political attacks). Abecedare (talk) 21:42, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Millions are not presidents of over 500 district party units of the national paty like congress. And the proceedings of the court cases should not be criteria for deletion and please assume good faith and do not attribute motives to editors and contributors.It is uncharacteristic of you Abecedare. Shyamsunder (talk) 01:48, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I apologize for that; I was unaware of how the Indian National Congress operates that the Indian National Congress was a party and not my definition of a "Congress" and compared it too much with the United States Congress in my own head. With that clarified I do agree with the assertion of delete due to lack of notability. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 21:47, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 *  Keep Numerous sources over a considerable period of time. Further I understand siblings and children of the national leaders are notable. SeeCategory:Children of national leaders and Category: Siblings of Presidents of the United States.An influencial state level politician too.Shyamsunder (talk) 01:36, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete It and the other articles do not meet WP:POLITICIAN. Just because he appeared in a few news articles does not make him worthy of an article. Any nonsense campaign will get that. Alio The Fool 18:32, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep Very notable politician and business executive. ChildofMidnight (talk) 03:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Would you please elaborate on why you consider this politician to be notable? Please see WP:JNN. -- Sh i r ik ( Questions or Comments? ) 17:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)


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