Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ranjana Kumari


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The result was keep. Geschichte (talk) 20:31, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Ranjana Kumari

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No indication of notability. Fails WP:GNG. References to till date do not satisfy notability of the subject. DMySon (talk) 15:52, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete Unless someone can add some good reception of her published work. Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 01:42, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. I found several major sources that refer to her as a prominent activist. She seems very well-known for her work in women's rights over the last 40 years:
 * AP article calling her "Ranjana Kumari, one of India’s most prominent women’s activists and director of the New Delhi-based Center for Social Research"


 * Washington Post citations from 2013 and 2014 including one calling her a "prominent" women's rights acvitist.


 * Quotes in the New York Times:


 * Interview with The Asia Foundation in 2013:


 * Interview with the ABC in 2017:


 * A press release about her being named one of the most influential people in gender policy in 2019 names some of her achievements and posts, and puts her in the same league as Ruth Bader Ginsburg:


 * Analysis of some of her academic work.
 * This chapter also looks like a good idea of her work.Citing (talk) 23:07, 18 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep: passes WP:GNG thanks to the sources listed by Citing. Venkat TL (talk) 07:53, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - via the Wikipedia Library, I found reception of her work that includes: Ursula Sharma, "Reviewed Works: Brides are not for Burning: Dowry Victims in India by Ranjana Kumari; Women-headed Households in Rural India by Ranjana Kumari; Widows, Abandoned and Destitute Women in India by Pramila Dandavate, Ranjana Kumari, Jamila Verghese", Sociology Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 1990) (JSTOR); Anantha Giri, "Reviewed Works: Women-Headed Households in Rural India by Ranjana Kumari; Growing up in Rural India: Problems and Needs of Adolescent Girls by Ranjana Kumari", Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 40, No. 1/2 (March-September 1991) (JSTOR); Maitrayee Chaudhuri, "Reviewed Work: Brides are not for Burning: Dowry Victims in India by Ranjana Kumari", Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 1/2 (March-September 1990) (JSTOR); Eddie J. Girdner, "Reviewed Work: Growing Up in Rural India: Problems and Needs of Adolescent Girls. by Ranjana Kumari, Renuka Singh, Anju Dubey", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer, 1991) (JSTOR); as well as an in-depth profile (and some interview) in "True grit", India Today, 3/21/2011 (Gale), a 2013 ANI report focused on her reaction, "Mumbai gangrape: Ranjana Kumari calls for instilling fear of law" (|A340522879&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco Gale), a 2017 interview with her as an expert titled "Interview: Five years after Nirbhaya, have things changed?" in Governance Now (|A519286402&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco Gale), a 2018 interview with her as an expert in Indian Currents (|A559159859&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco Gale). I think the sources identified in this discussion help establish her WP:BASIC/WP:GNG notability as an academician and activist. Beccaynr (talk) 19:06, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, as the sources establish notability.Jackattack1597 (talk) 17:48, 23 November 2021 (UTC)


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