Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Satya Brata Das


 * 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. Tone 21:55, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Satya Brata Das

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Very poorly sourced BLP. There are claims to notability but no independent sources cited to verify the claims. The entire article includes only one citation, and it is from a journal for which Das was an editor.--3family6 (Talk to me &#124; See what I have done ) 18:47, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment: The promotionally worded article text replicates the text from the subject's Amazon page, which may fall under WP:COPYVIO? AllyD (talk) 19:31, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 19:35, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 19:35, 27 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. This is very clearly promotional/advertorial in intent, and claims nothing about him that would be "inherently" notable enough to override how weak the actual sourcing is. Writers are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because their books happen to be available for sale on Amazon; board members of organizations are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist; TEDx speakers are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because their speech has been posted to YouTube; and on and so forth. Since the article was created by a user named "Edmontonpolicy", and the subject is a policy consultant in Edmonton, this is almost certainly an WP:AUTOBIO — so I don't think copyvio is the clinching argument here, because he probably put both copies on both sites himself. But the fact that his notability hasn't been properly demonstrated in the first place is more definitive. Bearcat (talk) 16:20, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTINHERITED, WP:GNG. The claim for notability is that somehow this subject is carrying on the work of Gandhi. I don't see any proof of that in reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 15:33, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


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