Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rooma Mehra


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 05:02, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Rooma Mehra

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The notability criteria are not addressed unambiguously nor are verifiable for this article. On investigation, the majority of the sources quoted are self published as are the books referenced (Sagar are listed as a printers rather than a publishing house and "Writers Workshop" does not appear to be a recognized publisher). Her work has been on display in locations such as the Open Palm Court, however an examination of their website shows little in the way of selectivity for having an exhibition there. Her work as a journalist has no evidence of notability such as awards or significant impact on other writers. Her poetry appears self published and non-notable. Her artwork has won no notable awards. A potential claim of being in a notable permanent collection seems dubious, there is one link for the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, however this is to one object with no description apart from "Mehra, Rooma" which could be one of her self published books in their library or an artwork that has never been on permanent display. All other exhibitions appear to be temporary or private commercial galleries and with no evidence of significant impact. Since creation over two years ago, many links and claims have been added which have not unambiguously demonstrated notability, improvement in the near future is unlikely and so I am raising for wider discussion. Fæ (talk) 16:21, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete. This vanity-press writer fails WP:BK, WP:AUTHOR, and WP:CREATIVE. Qworty (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment - First, the article needs extensive cleanup and addressing the issues tagged so far. It's so ugly that I can't focus on what's there.  That having been said, it is remotely possible that she's notable as an artist, but this is too difficult to tell.  I would tag it for "rescue", but I only do that if I would be reasonably certain of success, of which I am not here. So I am on the fence. Bearian (talk) 04:30, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I still have not seen any improvement in the past few days. 'Delete. Bearian (talk) 21:02, 10 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Greetings, Wikipedians! I am still a novice here and humbly request help in cleaning up this article. I request keeping the article because the notability criteria is addressed by 34,600 and has 3067 fans on Facebook if that is of any consequence. Kritik1 (talk) 08:18, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The Google Test is a flawed rationale, particularly for self-publicists. A closer look at Google Scholar shows no matches at all, and an search on Google News shows 5 matches, 4 of which are written by Mehra and the 5th is a non-notable mention in a fund-raising exhibition. Fæ (talk) 09:29, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Some cleaning up and keep. Salvadore1956 (talk) 08:48, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.