Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nagaruban Arumugam 2


 * 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   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Nagaruban Arumugam
AfDs for this article: 
 * – ( View AfD View log  •  )

Non-notable doctor who got news coverage after being unfortunate enough to be cut down in a car accident. No other coverage. No notable achievements for being a great surgeon or researcher, or a notable health bureaucrat. Getting a condolence from the local member of parliament is not enough, as they send out hundreds of congratulations/condolences each month for constituents eg, doing well in a high school exam, getting selected in a state youth sports team, turning 100 years old, a local sporting/ethnic/religious club opening a new building, etc. We are not going to have an article for every police officer, firefighter, state emergency service volunteer etc who was killed in action, bushfires, etc, politicians routinely attend funerals of these people  YellowMonkey  ( bananabucket )  01:36, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sad, but Wikipedia is not a WP:MEMORIAL. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Only coverage is about his death.  Sad, but not encyclopedic in my opinion.  Turgan Talk 02:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:ONEEVENT. Joe Chill (talk) 03:38, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep: Noted extensively in the parliament for his services; noted in the editorial of a state-wide newspaper. It is "encyclopaedic" for the people and the communities that benefitted from his service. Hence it is in the spirit of Wiki to keep this article. 6billionth sapien (talk) 03:54, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per nominator. I can only agree with the comments already made: this is sad, this man sounds like a fine individual, but is not notable (see WP:ONEEVENT). -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 04:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete — per nom.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )   05:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, both WP:MEMORIAL and WP:ONEEVENT apply in this case, sadly. JBsupreme (talk) 07:41, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: This article was at DRV a week ago: Deletion review/Log/2010 January 19. &mdash; KuyaBriBri Talk 14:49, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nominator and earlier comments from other editors. Warrah (talk) 20:24, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I was the proposer at 1st AfD. I've looked really hard at merging, but given the "grueling" hours that Nagaruban Arumugam was working before his car crash was 50/week, and that the mention in the Australian Parliament was a one-liner in a multi-column question by a backbencher trying to make a point about health funding in his electorate (no parliamentary condolence motion, no further mention by that or any other member since), this is totally a WP:1E and not worthy even of mention in Medical resident work hours. There has been no coronial attribution of crash, particularly to exhaustion which would justify mention in Medical resident work hours. In short, not notable due to WP:1E and as best I can tell not worthy of even a mention in an encyclopedia. Josh Parris 02:05, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * It appears that the member for Parkes spoke for several minutes on the matter; my recollection of the material was incorrect. Then the member for Port Adelaide expressed, on behalf on the government, condolences to the family of the doctor that the member for Parkes spoke of.  On that same day, condolences were expressed in the parliamentary record for 1,053 other people.  My opinion is unchanged. Josh Parris 02:16, 2 February 2010 (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.