Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rajat Suri


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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 02:18, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Rajat Suri

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 * Delete Fails WP:BASIC. Notability is not inherited, most sources are in relation to the company "E la Carte" and of those that mention Rajat, they are press releases or advertorials on behalf of the company. There is no evidence that Rajat is notable in his own right. -- HighKing ++ 16:04, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Article has been edited for multiple new secondary sources that are not on behalf of the company "E la Carte", and other notable connections beyond "E la Carte" such as relationship with Zimride / Lyft Randor5602 (talk) 14:10, 10 June 2017 (UTC) — Randor5602 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Comment The "Keep" !vote above is from an account that was created with the sole purpose of editing the topic article and !voting here. Nevertheless. From what I can see, none the sources Randor5602 added meet the criteria for establishing notability. You added the WSJ article but it is a blog, so fails as blogs are not acceptable sources for establishing notability. The Fox Business source is an interview and therefore not independent of the subject since there's nothing to indication that the "facts" were independently verified and not just repeated. The gigaom article suffers the same way. Then you've put in a section on E la Carte and referenced a bunch of articles that are actually about the company but where Rajat might be mentioned or provide a quote. These articles are not intellectually independent, notability is not inherited, they're not in-depth and therefore fail the criteria for establishing notability (the techcrunch article, the mashable article, the thefamuanonline article, usatoday article, bizjournals article, and fastcompany article). Then you've done the same thing for a previous business of Rajat's called Zimride by adding in references to articles that are about zimride and not about Rajat. -- HighKing ++ 15:44, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment Wikipedia guidelines state that anyone may !vote, so unfair to discriminate based on this and not on the merits of the facts. The WSJ article helps to establish the subject as notable within the business world - it is not a personal blog, but an essay published in a well-known mainstream business paper on how to perform as a new business leader, which shows industry influence, a criterion for notability.  The other new articles that were added do establish diverse valid secondary sources that clearly independently verified facts before writing the article, including Fast Company, GigaOm and others. These are manifestly not press releases and are written by specialized journalists in the field.   Randor5602 (talk) 18:28, 10 June 2017 (UTC) — Randor5602 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Comment Much credit to you, an apparent new editor, for adhering to guidelines on formatting and quoting policy. Not discriminating, just asking, have you edited here before and if so, what is the other account name? Also, I'll disagree on your viewpoints on sources and leave it to the closing admin to evaluate whether those sources meet or fail the criteria for establishing notability. -- HighKing ++ 15:08, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Blocked Note that this account has been blocked as a sock/meat puppet. As such I have blanked their !vote. -- HighKing ++ 22:54, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Does not fail WP:GNG as the topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. While Rajat Suri is primarily recognized as CEO and co-founder of E la Carte, Rajat has also been cited in articles written by well-known and reputable journalists such as Wall Street Journal providing advice to other CEOs. He is a notable person as his experience expands beyond E la Carte. User:LuckyHorse (talk) 12:12, 12 June 2017 (UTC) — LuckyHorse (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Blocked Note that this account has been blocked as a sock/meat puppet. As such I have blanked their !vote. -- HighKing ++ 22:54, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Winged Blades Godric  07:27, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete. No pass of WP:Prof or WP:GNG. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:15, 19 June 2017 (UTC).
 * Delete -- part of a WP:PROMO campaign that also includes Articles for deletion/E la Carte. No indications of notability or significance per available sources; just a businessman going about his business. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:26, 19 June 2017 (UTC)


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