Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neeru Khosla


 * 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. j⚛e deckertalk 01:05, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Neeru Khosla

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This short biography seems to utterly fail Notability (people). Ego Hunter (talk) 05:27, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 13:37, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 13:37, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:01, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Then find more background information and improve the article! I'll agree there isn't much there, and whilst we should clearly eat our own dog food, this article is about someone who is important to WMF so there should be good reasons why they were appointed to that advisory board. --AlisonW (talk) 20:52, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * AlisonW, being a member of the WMF board of advisors is not a criterion for notability. I am certain that the decision to extend an invitation to the wife of one of the Sun Microsystems co-founders, and herself the co-founder of an open-source technology-based non-profit to be an advisor made good sense when the WMF was first moving to Southern California, and it's entirely possible that she has provided useful advice to the WMF Board of Trustees since that time. But these don't make for notability. Risker (talk) 21:29, 1 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep, subject has received significant coverage from multiple non-primary or secondary reliable sources (1),, 3), therefore subject meets WP:GNG. If there are issues with the article, deletion shouldn't be the solution, see WP:NOTCLEANUP.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:32, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are almost no reliable sources specifically about Khosla; almost all of them are, at their core, about the foundation she co-founded. (While I think the foundation is notable, its own article reads like an advertisement.)  The sources that RightCowLeftCost has identified (all three of them!) are one biography strongly focused on the foundation, and two articles in local newspapers with a significant focus on the foundation.  Running a foundation does not make one notable.  Risker (talk) 21:06, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 23:22, 4 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge - Although the majority of Neeru Khosla's work is with the CK-12 Foundation, she is part of other organizations, for example being a Wikipedia Advisor. So that may be a reason for a keep. However, I must agree with Risker that the few articles on Neeru is mostly about the foundation, and those sources are not particular notable neither. Therefore, I think a merge to the CK-12 foundation page, AND a clean up of said page should be the outcome of this discussion.
 * Keep — First and most importantly, Khosla has been the subject of many articles for her work on CK-12 and is a board member of many organizations including the Wikimedia Foundation which is a large and important organization. Although the articles about her may focus on her work, she falls clearly on the good side of the WP:INHERIT and the fact that she is known for her work need not mean that she be merged into the article about her organization. The article does not do a good job of establishing notability but should fix the article, not delete it.
 * Second, the nominator seems to have 30 minute total contribution history to Wikipedia that exclusively involved nominating visible Wikimedia leaders' biographies for deletion. That contribution history, the username and user page, seems to me like somebody it might be trying to make a WP:POINT. Full disclosure, I found this because they also nominated the biography about me in the same session. As far I know, I have ever met Khosla. — m a k o ๛  03:58, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep There are sufficient sources to establish WP:GNG notability and this doesn't appear to be a policy-based nomination. --I am One of Many (talk) 05:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Some of the sources about the foundation include significant amounts of detail about her instead of just being about the foundation; it looks like enough for an independent article. Dreamyshade (talk) 09:00, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - Passes WP:BIO. Enough coverage of her in particular (whether or not the articles also talk about the organization, she is the profile/subject of a sufficient number of sources). --&mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 15:42, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
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