Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohan Apte


 * 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. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Mohan Apte

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Delete google shows many hits for Mohan Apte, but most seem to be other people and those that might be this guy don't seem to be WP:RSes. Fails WP:V and probably WP:BIO as well. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:35, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions.  -- &mdash; LinguistAtLarge • Talk  19:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep for now - I'm not totally convinced, but what do you make of these sources?, , , , and &mdash; LinguistAtLarge • Talk  19:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for now echoing nom concerns. Sources adduced above are not indicative of notability. Eusebeus (talk) 20:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Not so fast. Reading through Linguist's references I see "An exhibition on astronomy covering aspects of our solar system, space research and observational astronomy inaugurated by well-known science writer Professor Mohan Apte"; and "Mohan Apte, former head of the department of Physics at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Chowpatty"; both from Indian newspapers.  Those references appear to indicate he gets over the notability barrier under WP:PROF.  Can anyone confirm those are Indian national newspapers?— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  22:08, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - the stub needs some work before we can discuss this further. Rescue? Bearian (talk) 14:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)  Better citations and a biography would help. Bearian (talk) 14:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. From little stubs, great articles grow. -65.246.126.130 (talk) 17:14, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Avi (talk) 17:19, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep: Added some sources, wikified (which should be the first thing folks do when assessing an article). Marginal sources, but seems to meet at least one of WP:PROF:  "5. The person holds or has held a named/personal chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research." and MAYBE "7. The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity.".  Online sourcing is going to be hard for this, but it sounds like from the press accounts and emails (which we can't use) if I were from Mumbai, he work would be accessible.T L Miles (talk) 17:24, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  —Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:03, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Apte appears to be widely read within India as a "well-known science writer," in the words of one of Linguist's supplied cites. I've tagged this AfD in the India-related deletion discussion and hope that some of our Indian colleagues can shed more light on Apte's notability -- or lack of.Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:13, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: I also left a note on the talk page of the creator. In future, it might be helpful to do this when you nominate a page for deletion, especially when dealing with a foreign language topic.  T L Miles (talk) 18:40, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep I know no proper way to evaluate the importance of this material. The criteria for WP:PROF are not really much help here; based on the apparent references to his work, and to avoid cultural bias, I would not delete it. DGG (talk) 21:30, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep DGG sums it up well - also no real red BLP flags are cropping up so some time to work on it is ok. Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:25, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


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