Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rudy Rupak


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 16:56, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Rudy Rupak

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Semi-advertorialized article about an entrepreneur, not properly sourced as passing our inclusion criteria for entrepreneurs. As always, businesspeople are not automatically entitled to have articles just because they and their companies exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on their sourceability -- but this is not referenced to any significant reliable source coverage about him, instead citing a mixture of primary source press releases from his own companies, blogs, directory entries, glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things, and purely tangential verification of stray facts in sources that completely fail to name Rudy Rupak in conjunction with them at all, none of which are notability-building sources. There's also a likely conflict of interest here, as the article was created by a virtual WP:SPA whose editing interests revolve almost exclusively around Rudy Rupak -- even the stuff in their edit history that doesn't seem obviously connected, such as Sainte-Adèle and Les Misérables, still hinged on finding ways to shoehorn Rudy Rupak into them. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have considerably better referencing than this. Bearcat (talk) 13:29, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, India, United Kingdom,  and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 13:29, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Not only overly promotional, and with many of the sources not even name-checking him, and others doing only that, this guy must be related to George Santos because the stories told in this article are unbelievable. I suspect that this is an act of reputation-washing, as this fellow has been in jail for attempted murder (he was just protecting his home!), was indicted for embezzelment, and runs or has run a medical tourism business where he was accused of fraud, with some indication of (even for that biz) shady deals. Almost nothing here can be confirmed in RS - the statement that he had a game company links to an Answers.com that is unrelated to that. I also wonder about the IMDB entries, since those can be modified. The NY Times article on surrogacy only mentions him, although it does say that he was a co-founder of the company. (Note that "co-" isn't in the article here.) The section on Surrogacy Controversy is basically a cover-up of a crime, as he moved from the US to Mexico and allegedly defrauded folks from there (NY Times). In any case, the only verifiable info seems to be this guy's crimes, but I don't think those rise to the level of notability. Lamona (talk) 05:42, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Here's an LA Times article about his medical tourism business that says more about him (but is mainly about the biz). I note that it says that he has only a high school diploma (in the ending portion) while above that it says he attended medical school in S Africa. This WP article says he attended a technical college in India. Lamona (talk) 05:56, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * It just keeps getting better. The Indian Institute that he supposedly attended after a year of college (around 1970) is a non-profit formed in 2022 in California, and which may not have yet done anything. The link to that lists his name as Rupak Acharya. The article here gives his name as Acharyya Rupak and using that name I can find "US v Acharyya Rupak", a news release "International Surrogacy Clients Defrauded in Racketeering Scheme". He apparently was sentenced to jail time in 2017, and this article was mostly created by an SPA in 2022. His creation of a medical tourism service and subsequent conviction for fraud may almost make this fellow notable, but as a criminal. Lamona (talk) 17:20, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I cleaned up a bunch of articles where his un-referenced info had been added ("Les Miserables"!). What remains is Rudy and Rupak. Lamona (talk) 17:33, 13 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:TNT and WP:SPAM. This wall of text and links is just a cover for spam. In 2023, nobody can reasonably claim they deserve a free page on Wikipedia. Bearian (talk) 04:20, 15 February 2023 (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.