Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kalyan Dass Jain


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 00:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Kalyan Dass Jain

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I PROD'ed this article, but I realized a minute too late this was already PROD'ed and contested and the PROD had never been noted in the talk page.

So, I removed my own Prod and am coming to AfD. This article contains no sources at all, and a Google search of the subject's name only produces links back to Wikipedia or sites that copy Wikipedia. I propose deletion as failing WP:V Bradjamesbrown (talk) 05:10, 30 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Fails WP:V.  IShadowed  ✰  05:22, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. The subject's name may be spelled incorrectly. I searched for Kalyan Das Jain, and didn't find a biography of the politician, but did find Kalyan Das Jain Marg, a street in Agra that might have been named after the politician at http://www.florencemedicines.com/franchisee.html  I also found a "List of Freedom Fighters" which included the name.  So perhaps the person is notable, but establishing the fact may require access to offline sources in Agra. – Eastmain (talk) 05:42, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  -- - Spaceman  Spiff  18:36, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Spelled incorrectly as Eastmain notes above. Gbooks references exist for a mayor of Agra "Kalyan Das Jain". []--Sodabottle (talk) 20:14, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The readable text on Gbooks is limited, but this result [] appears to be the best.  So, it's a given we move the page to the correct spelling.  However, is there enough information here to pass WP:POLITICIAN?  Bradjamesbrown (talk) 09:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep In addition to the link above from Bradjamesbrown, there's this which documents his fifth consecutive election, apparently some sort of achievement at that time, and a couple of other stray mentions. By itself this is not significant coverage, but online archives of Indian newspapers don't go back to even the 1990s, and it's extremely likely that there would have been significant coverage of a mayor of Agra in The Times of India and Hindustan Times, after all the current population of the city is 3X that of Wyoming, and therefore it is a "major" city. So this is a good faith keep, saying that the subject will pass WP:Politician#2. Hopefully someone with access to film/paper archives of either newspaper might be able to expand this in future. - Spaceman  Spiff  06:40, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. A five-term mayor of a city larger than Detroit and Boston combined pretty clearly passes WP:POLITICIAN. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:10, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep I agree.  All concerns have been addressed, and this article looks little like it did when I nominated it.  I withdraw this nomination.  Bradjamesbrown (talk) 22:41, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
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