Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ram Chandra Hamal


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The result was delete. — foxj 01:40, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Ram Chandra Hamal

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Politician with little or no significant coverage in reliable sources. Doesn't seem to have met WP:POLITICIAN. Guess this should be deleted. — UY Scuti Talk  09:31, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. — UY Scuti  Talk  09:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nepal-related deletion discussions. — UY Scuti  Talk  09:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * As written, this doesn't even make a claim that he ever held any political office that would satisfy WP:NPOL — it just asserts that he existed as a politician, and then provides an unsourced biographical sketch of his personal life while not really saying anything at all about what he did as a politician. Even if he did actually pass NPOL for something, this isn't the article he would get to keep on that basis. Delete, without prejudice against recreation if somebody can actually make and properly source an actual claim of notability rather than mere existence. Bearcat (talk) 19:16, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment, it does say that he was a key leader of Nepali Congress, the largest political party in Nepal during most of the 20th century. Keeping in mind that NC was an illegal party for most of this period, it's unlikely that he would have held office. On my side, I can't find much to verify his existence, there is a mention of a prisoner from Baitadi with this name released in 1969, https://books.google.com/books?id=hbMjAQAAMAAJ p. 97, but I can't find anything else in English. --Soman (talk) 01:40, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, going through the mess that is the edit history of this article, it certainly seems that it is a hoax/test page. --Soman (talk) 01:43, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment The external link is to a well respected scholarly journal, but unfortunately (for most of us) to an article in Nepali. It would take someone fluent in that language to determine whether it's a useful reference. I doubt if this is a hoax or test, but it might be a memorial. The first wikilinks to Ram Chandra Hamal were added by an editor who chose the username "Kshitiz hamal". If the journal article supports some of the three-quarters of the article that Ohnoitsjamie removed as an "unsourced mess", then Hamal might count as a party leader in the sense of WP:POLOUTCOMES, "usually considered notable regardless of that party's degree of electoral success." Worldbruce (talk) 08:30, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment, the Nepali language reference makes no mention at all of Hamal. In fact it's about Raja Kalyan Singh in around 1734 A.D. Just proves the whole article is hoax. --Soman (talk) 16:52, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, my Nepali wasn't up to evaluating that pdf. Worldbruce (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per Soman's clarification of source. Bazj (talk) 20:03, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete In light of Soman's translation and the fact that searches of the usual Google types, HighBeam, ProQuest, EBSCO, and InfoTRAC found no sources about the topic. Worldbruce (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


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