Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ganesh Dhungana


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:21, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Ganesh Dhungana

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Per WP:GNG. Two legitimate sources mention the subject. THT and TKP. THT also mentions Mahesh Paudyal and the photo there was also taken by Mahesh. TKP article is a puff piece written by Mahesh Paudyal. Mahesh Paudyal also wrote another puff piece on him in his personal blog. It was part of a concerted effort to get each other on wikipedia. There was further evidence in edit history of Mahesh Paudyal's page which has since been deleted. This page was created and mostly contributed to by Nepalwrites and this is all that Nepalwrites ever contributed to. I have searched for this person with all search terms I could think of, in Roman as well as Devanagari script. Finally, a fallacious argument: Nor have I or anyone I know of ever heard of him (I should as a resident compatriot). Usedtobecool TALK  22:29, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Fails Notability guidelines. Thehimalayantimes is a one sentence passing mention. (The author very sloppily and unprofessionally duplicated that sentence, which would also raise obvious questions of the reputability and editorial oversight of the source.) Kathmandupost has more substantial coverage, but it's apparently written by one of his university teachers raising significant independence/COI concerns. The other sources in the article are not independent. I also found myrepublica.nagariknetwork, but it's a passing mention, I'm not sure of the quality of the source, and it doesn't help that it's a blatantly promotional event. I searched and was unable to find any other Independent Reliable sources to support Notability. I don't know if there is some local language spelling of his name, but if some one pings me with a another version of the name I'd be happy to search on that as well. Alsee (talk) 20:34, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 23:12, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Per Alsee. The sources in this article are all either useless or of sketchy value. It therefore fails WP:GNG and the WP:SPA COI issue with the creator means it should be uprooted from the encyclopedia so as not to reward corruption on Wikipedia. Newshunter12 (talk) 04:39, 18 June 2019 (UTC)


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