Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shankar Vaman Dandekar


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 00:35, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Shankar Vaman Dandekar

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Does not qualify WP:GNG. The individual is claimed to be a teacher at a school and and principal of a local college. There are no references, no media coverage(except for the external link which is not readable), no research publications. Google search points to some links which are essentially copies of this page Adamgerber80 (talk) 00:10, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete couldnt find anything online that would make him pass WP:GNG. — usernamekiran (talk)  08:13, 26 October 2017 (UTC) (kindly see the comment below) — usernamekiran (talk)   21:36, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep- Multiple book sources. As this subject is part of the pre-internet era reliable sources would be in the form of books. E. M. Forster mentions him here  and other books here ,,,,,,,,. There is an Arts collage named after him . Usernamekiran I think if you searched under this name Sonopant Dandekar the result would have been better.   FITINDIA   13:05, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep the multiple book reliable sources identified above show that the subject passses WP:BASIC Atlantic306 (talk) 17:33, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep confusion because of name as pointed out above. — usernamekiran (talk)   21:36, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep -- an acceptable stub at this point, with notability established. K.e.coffman (talk) 21:41, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - As per FITINDIA. Having a college, currently attended by over 5000 students, named after him does seem to indicate notability! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:38, 29 October 2017 (UTC)


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