Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raywat Deonandan


 * 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 delete. This discussion has been relisted twice, and a decision seems needed. I'm taking Animalparty's comment as, in effect, a "weak delete" opinion, and the sole advocate of keeping doesn't seem to have mounted a persuasive, policy-based argument. Deor (talk) 15:04, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Raywat Deonandan

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Fails WP:ACADEMIC or else academic credentials establishing notability are not stated. Bueller 007 (talk) 22:02, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment: he may qualify per WP:AUTHOR, as the article states he received the national Guyana Prize for Literature in 2000 (see Guyanese literature). I couldn't find sources for this (or any previous winner) though. Mind  matrix  15:59, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 08:43, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Fails WP:PROF, as can be seen from his GS profile, which states a h-index of 4. Did apparently not receive the National Guyana Prize for Literature in 2000, but a lesser award for first novel. -- 120.23.97.38 (talk) 22:54, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Apparently, the National Guyana Prize for "Best Book of Fiction" was won in 2000 by David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress. Deonandan indeed won a lesser award for first novel. -- 120.23.61.162 (talk) 08:35, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

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 * Comment. Most web mentions of the subject are cloned from this article. This article, in turn, relies solely on the subject's own (self-published) bio and website. -- 120.23.97.38 (talk) 00:51, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep He is known for being a public commentator on global health issues of Third World countries. Needs better references, but the editor who stopped by just to delete this article, 120.23.97.38's argument that the autobiography is the only source, no longer stands, and professors are surely not required to have only professorial notability. MicroPaLeo (talk) 02:34, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't think he even comes close to meeting WP:PROF, and I don't see any news or other coverage supporting the idea that he "is known for being a public commentator on global health issues of Third World countries." Adding links to blog posts he's written himself doesn't really make the case. He might meet WP:AUTHOR for his books (which would indeed make WP:PROF moot, as MicroPaLeo suggests), but I doubt it. The only coverage of his fiction that I can find is cloned from Wikipedia, or is written by Deonandan himself. -- 120.23.61.162 (talk) 08:27, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * He seems to be well known enough that you came to Wikipedia solely to get his article deleted. MicroPaLeo (talk) 08:32, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I contribute regularly at AfD on a wide range of articles. My IP address varies. And please, WP:NPA and WP:AGF. -- 120.23.61.162 (talk) 08:38, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - The Herald (here I am) 16:03, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. The WP:PROF guideline #8 reads: "The person is or has been the head or chief editor of a major well-established academic journal in their subject area." Deonandan is credited as "Faculty Advisor" (his bio states "Executive Editor") of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences, which is currently hosted under Deonandan's domain name, and doesn't clearly appear to be well-established. Since the journal itself is non-independent of Deonandan, I don't think that can count towards determining notability in any sense, nor can articles written by Deonandan. Significant secondary coverage is still lacking, and unless those can be provided, I say deletion is warranted. I've found only one sign of a review of his work, (a shorter excerpt from another is on his publisher page) but those alone may not be substantial enough to satisfy WP:AUTHOR. --Animalparty-- (talk) 21:05, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not seem to meet either WP:PROF or WP:AUTHOR - or for that matter WP:GNG. He is an assistant professor and executive editor of a non-notable journal. His books do not seem to be notable - and as noted above, his claim on his faculty page that he received "the national book award of the nation of Guyana" seems, to put it kindly, dubious. Maybe a promising young scholar, but nowhere near Wikipedia standards at this time. --MelanieN (talk) 23:06, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
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