Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samir Palnitkar


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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 02:33, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Samir Palnitkar

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This biography is not notable and the main source, aside from a couple of web news articles during the dot-com era is a LinkedIn profile. Wikipedia does not synthesize information per policy and is not a place to advertise. NCMECK345 (talk) 17:39, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * I support delete based on nomination. JCP2017 (talk) 01:24, 1 May 2017 (UTC) ( Obvious sock blocked and !vote struck. Please note I have also blocked the proposer for socking for 1 week, and as I have taken admin action I cannot now comment on the deletion discussion itself. I'll leave it to any reviewer to decide whether to extend the discussion. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:40, 1 May 2017 (UTC) )
 * Keep. I do not see the linked in profile being used as the principle source here, and as notability is not temporary I see no problem with most sources being contemporary to his period of peak prominence (if they all are, I haven't checked the date of all of them). I debated speedily closing this nomination based on the nominator being blocked, but decided on balance that it was probably worth having the discussion. Thryduulf (talk) 12:01, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, surprisingly. I was expecting to !vote "Keep" here, but as I look at it, I really don't see any sources that are really about the subject. We have the subject's own linkedin profile, mentioned above and cited twice; some sources like this EE Times article that mention an associated company, but don't mention the subject at all; a press release which is the same, and is just a press release on top of that; some directory-like entries such as this list of investors in one of his companies; a web forum post (WP:SELFPUBLISH); and other non-WP:RS sources. Some sources, like this one, at least mention the subject, but in very little depth; almost in passing. My own independent search really doesn't find much about the subject of the article, either. TJRC (talk) 18:14, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Lankiveil (speak to me) 00:43, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not meet notability criteria; lacking in in-depth coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources, as required by Wikipedia policy. Citobun (talk) 14:22, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete -- a glorified CV. Wikipedia is not LinkedIn. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:28, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - While I think sources might show up on his business career, and he is an author (I do know Verilog, but I don't recall this book in particular - but I'm not an expert on Verilog).... The sources aren't there, and a quick google and book search doesn't bring up much.Icewhiz (talk) 08:16, 15 May 2017 (UTC)


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