Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SDIG Sumith Edirisinghe


 * 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. Spartaz Humbug! 08:08, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

SDIG Sumith Edirisinghe

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The article was previously considered at an AfD - Sumith Edirisinghe whereby it was deleted. This is just a re-creation of that deleted article with a series of passing mentions of the individual under a slightly different name. The subject of the article is merely a senior police officer. There is nothing contained in the article that establishes the subject's notability - fails WP:ANYBIO. The references only provide a mention of the subject - merely establishing that he exists. Whilst there are a series of related readings none of them provide any significant coverage as required under WP:GNG, they are simply a series of passing mentions - nothing more. The rank of SDIG is not an automatically notable position & there is no other evidence of notability provided. Dan arndt (talk) 13:37, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sri Lanka-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 13:40, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 13:40, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Dan arndt (talk) 13:40, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep. As I stated before, a DIGP is in chance of the policing of a province, with a population of over 1 million to about 5 million people. Any police officer in the UK or USA with this much responsibility would be a clear keep. And per WP:SOLDIER we keep all military general officers; this police rank is equivalent. I don't know why we're discriminating against police officers. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:38, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment as indicated in previous AfDs - arguments for or against WP:Soldier are irrelevant because there is absolutely no "automatic inclusion clause but all articles are to depend on "significant coverage in independent, secondary sources". This applies to ANYBIO and WP:BASIC, that states, "People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject." This is supported by the policy Verifiability and the guideline Identifying reliable sources. This article is lacking on all counts. Dan arndt (talk) 00:32, 14 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete article lacks sufficient sources to show notability. The claim that "any police officer in the USA with this much responsibility would be a clear keep" is discredited by the fact that we lack an article on Kristy Etue, the head of theMichigan State Police, Michigan having just under 10 million residents.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:07, 15 December 2017 (UTC)


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