Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. A. Senthilvelan


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The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:19, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

K. A. Senthilvelan

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Contested PROD, on the grounds that passing out at the head of his year makes him notable. I disagree: there is a little written about him, but not enough to establish notability. TheLongTone (talk) 14:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Many people passed out at the head of their class. But that and his current rank do not make him especially notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:11, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Considering the 3,49,020 applicants for the Civil Services Examination, only 81 IPS officers were selected for the batch of 2004. A no mean feat by itself, Dr. K. A. Senthilvelan IPS was selected the "Best Outgoing Probationer" and was the recipient of the Prime minister's Baton and Home ministry's revolver - A rare honor awarded only to 65 Indian Police Service Officers till date. He was also in charge and during the controversial Paramakudi Riots where 7 civilians were killed when police opened fire on the mob. In the Commission of Inquiry that followed, the report deemed police action “absolutely warranted to maintain peace and restore normalcy”. Although the probe panel absolved the police of any excesses, it said the conduct of some of them after the riots were quelled was “disgraceful and at variance with the prescription of the Police Standing Orders, as could be seen from the fact that several rioters were beaten up after they were rounded up” . The report also noted that not all the deaths were owing to police firing but there were cases of “brutal” police torture of rioters by K. A. Senthilvelan, then Deputy Commissioner of Police, Adyar, who was on deputation in Paramakudi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diwan07 (talk • contribs) 18:39, 21 February 2014‎ (UTC)


 * Sorry, but there's still nothing here that makes him notable. We have no other articles on people who passed out top of their class at military or police academies just because they passed out at the top of their class. At the end of the day, he's just a police superintendent doing what a police superintendent does. And he's only been doing it for ten years. No notability whatsoever. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:54, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 03:22, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Head of the class at a particular Police Academy is not notability. We do not automatically include the heads of class (valedictorians, in US terminology) of even the most famous universities, tho some of them do later become notable. The notability would have to be as Superintendent of Police of a city of 60,000. A city of 6 million, yes, that would probably be notability, but not 60,000.   DGG ( talk ) 01:59, 11 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete Agree with Nomination and DGG above. VasuVR  ( talk,  contribs ) 13:35, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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