Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. Annamalai


 * 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__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Passes NPOL as MLA. (non-admin closure) ​​​​​​​𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝟕𝟐𝟖🧙‍♂️Let's Talk ! 17:31, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

K. Annamalai

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A low profile party member and former MLA. There has been no news of this person lately, therefore, failing NPOL and BLP1E. Often confused with the BJP politician K. Annamalai. Hence, I suggest this page to be deleted as along with the above-mentioned reasons, this page has been inactive for a long time and relies on a single source as mentioned in the article heading. FlyJet777 (talk) 19:10, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2023 September 25.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 19:21, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Every member of a national or state legislature is notable, according to NPOL. There is no reason to delete this article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:33, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Tamil Nadu.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:34, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians, Politics, India,  and Tamil Nadu. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:34, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment. The other person with this name, K. Annamalai (BJP politician), has never been a member of a state or national legislature. Being president of a state party does not guarantee notability. In 2021, an article on the BJP politician was deleted. See the discussion at Articles for deletion/Annamalai k. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:51, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, the BJP politician K. Annamalai has not been a member of state or national legislature yet, but he has gained a lot of traction in India and particularly, in his state Tamil Nadu due to his En Mann En Makkal padayatra (foot journey) in the past few months, thus gaining notability.
 * Whereas, the AIADMK politician has never been in news since he became MLA in 2001. Also the page of the AIADMK politician has been inactive except for a few cases of hijacking of the article wherein people confused the politician with BJP's K. Annamalai. Is it wise to keep the less notable politician's page but delete the politician's page who is more popular? Moreover, when the BJP politician's page was deleted previously, he had less to no popularity. But now, that has completely changed. FlyJet777 (talk) 21:02, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep: The subject passes WP:NPOL as an MLA; notability is not temporary. Curbon7 (talk) 20:07, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, notable per NPOL. End of. --DoubleGrazing (talk) 05:37, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article does need improvement, but serving in the national legislature is the kind of inherently notable role where we need to have something. We don't care whether the coverage was recent or not, either: if he had coverage while he was in politics 20 years ago, then that's still notability-building coverage. Bearcat (talk) 15:14, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep, easy pass of notability criteria as legislator. --Soman (talk) 09:49, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep passes WP:NPOL.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 12:22, 30 September 2023 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.