Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nawang Kapadia


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The result was redirect to Harish Kapadia. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:41, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Nawang Kapadia

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Subject does not satisfy the notability criteria of WP:GNG and WP:SOLDIER— Wikipedia is not a memorial. &mdash;  MB laze Lightning T 12:09, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:41, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Terrorism-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:41, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:41, 15 December 2016 (UTC)


 * sources ran a quick search at Times of India, found,, . I think we need to check some news archives on this one.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:49, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Someone familiar with the Kargil War would be useful to this discussion.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:51, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * — Kargil war was fought in 1999 between India and Pakistan whilst Nawang Kapadia died while battling militants during Counter-terrorist operations in Kupwara area on November 2000. &mdash;  MB laze Lightning T 12:48, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, MBlazeLightening. Did you have a chance to run a news archive search, to see what coverage he or the action he was killed in may have gotten back then?E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:53, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment: I have found a few passing mentions of the subject, but nothing that really amounts to significant coverage. Given that the subject's father (Harish Kapadia) has an article (albeit largely unsourced), and the main information of note from this article is also included there, potentially a redirect could be considered if the notability of the father's article is accepted. Otherwise I don't believe that the subject is notable enough for a stand alone article. I note that both this article, and the one relating to the father, appear to have been written by Sonam Kapadia who appears to be the brother of Nawang. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 17:40, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I could live with a redirect, per the below. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 09:09, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Harish Kapadia. I took a moment to run Proquest news archive searches; the father is clearly notable;his article could be better written, but RS exist.  The son has been memorialized by his grieving parents, and this has received coverge, but searches on his name did not readily bring up sources on him aside from the parents activities in his memory.  Better keywords; familiarity with the military action in which he died, or Hindi might do so.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:07, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   21:35, 23 December 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 04:00, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Junior officer with no significant decorations. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:28, 3 January 2017 (UTC)


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