Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pani Babu


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The result was delete. Can be userfied on request, perhaps.  Sandstein  11:17, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Pani Babu

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After a couple of long and hard looks, I cannot find sufficient reliable coverage of this person to meet WP:GNG, even taking into account WP:INDAFD. The only sources I can find are in publications not remotely reliable. I had PRODed this, but the tag was removed by the author, who also has a name similar to the subject (possibly a relative?) which raises COI concerns as well. Vanamonde93 (talk) 14:00, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete -- the Surotho Pani mentioned many times in the linked "Seed Holds..." book might be notable, but unless the author is asserting that Suratha is the same as Surotho, there's no mention of this subject in that book. -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 18:00, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment -- Issues related to transliteration might well mean that Suratha and Surotho are the same. Having not seen the book, I regret that I find it difficult to judge significance from what is essentially no more than a stub.  Possibly userify, so that the author can work on it, with a view to establishing notability.  If (for example) in the course of a career, he established several dozen churches, he might well be notable.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:49, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Michael Scott Cuthbert, Peterkingiron; yes, I believe that errors in transliteration means that Surotho and Suratha are the same person. However, the book is published by Lulu.com; described by Wikipedia as " is an online print-on-demand, self-publishing and distribution platform." Hardly a reliable publisher, methinks. I would even have accepted a religious publisher, were they distant from the subject, but this doesn't even meet that low bar. Vanamonde93 (talk) 05:29, 21 December 2015 (UTC)


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