Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shanta Rani Sharma


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The result was delete. --BDD (talk) 21:13, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Shanta Rani Sharma

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Subject does not meet either WP:GNG or WP:ACADEMIC, the relevant subject-specific notability guideline. Subject has very little published academic work and no significant reviews of the work (see the article talk page for more info). Seems to be a fairly standard academic, rather than one with the extra notability we require for a WP article. Qwyrxian (talk) 09:28, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
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Provisional delete. Only a few cites on GS. Probably too early. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:07, 27 July 2013 (UTC).


 * Delete - Subject fails to meet notability guideleines for academics per WP:ACAD. There is  insufficient third-party coverage of the subject and, in a career  spanning  35 years at the same college so far, her published work does not amount to much.  Recognised notable academics or historians  have produced far more. Her last offering cited in the article dates back to 2001 viz. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Search?query=Shanta%20Rani%20Sharma.  She has published no book since  her 1993 doctoral thesis was edited and published as a book in 1996 which received very limited coverage in academia - in fact, as stated in the article, just one write-up, five years later, also in 2001 (see talk page and the source cited above). It is  customary for  Delhi University to give some long-standing lecturers at  its constituent colleges the title of Assistant or Associate Professor for the university-related work they do, and she has been at the same college since 1978 -http://www.du.ac.in/index.php?id=388 - but she  is not a full-fledged university  professor, which is something different, though even being that would require evidence of notability for a WP article. Basically, she is doing what all those in her position at affiliated colleges are paid to do.  With retirement drawing closer, subject has received minimal coverage to date.  And being a Ph.D in today's world is not, by and  in itself, a reason or qualification for an article here. AFAICT subject fails WP:GNG.Zananiri (talk) 18:59, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
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