Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soni Motors Thailand


 * 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 Deleting Soni Motors Thailand, Auto Retailing History in Asia andMotor Walah. Keeping M. Ahmed Quraishi and redirecting Quraishi Motors to it. Rx StrangeLove 06:14, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Soni Motors Thailand
Incomplete nomination started by DeLarge, no opinion from me. Yomangani talk 17:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC) 


 * ?!? I haven't finished yet!!! Give me a sec! --DeLarge 17:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Advertising - users only contributions seem to be to puff this company. See Toyota Hilux, Mitsubishi L200, etc, and this company seems to fail the notability test for businesses (barely 1000 Googlehits).

I am also nominating the following related pages because they're similar puff pieces on the company, its owner or founder:
 * Auto Retailing History in Asia
 * M. Ahmed Quraishi
 * Motor Walah
 * Quraishi Motors

--DeLarge 17:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm not associated with Soni Motors in any way and have no interest in advertising them except history. I happened to live in India in the 90s and am an auto buff and learned about unique contributions of Indians to auto history and learned about Ahmed Quraishi and Sir Dorabji Tata. If there are articles about Tata and their whole family with links to their websites and descriptions of their businesses which are commercial in nature then IMHO, Ahmed Quraishi who was a true automobile industry pioneer should not be ignored.

I've now moved to Thailand and by sheer coincidence I end up buying a Vigo from Soni Motors and was amused to discover that they were a descendent of Ahmed Quraishi because the trail had gone cold in India and I was unable to find out what had happened to him after his emigration from India.

As I said, I have no interest in promoting them as I gain nothing but I do feel that his contributions to Asian automotive industry have been ignored. He is as much a legend as Tata in India, DAT founders in Japan and DeZousa in Sri Lanka - all visionaries in their own right who were instrumental in promoting auto industy in Asia.

There is a feeling among Indian Muslims that Ahmed Quraishi's contributions have been ignored because of his religion and I don't agree with them. Perhaps the real reason was because he migrated to Pakistan after his showrooms and buses were destroyed during the violence that were precipitated by the Partition of Indian Subcontinent. Johnfambrini 19:06, 18 September 2006 (UTC)johnfambrini .
 * Delete all - there is an encyclopaedic article here trying to get out but these are not it. As presently structured they act as clever advertising even though they may not be intended that way. BlueValour 02:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 *  AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.  Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 15:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete, non-notable and full of NPOV claims regarding the company. Nothing said that couldn't be said of countless similar enterprises. Sockatume 17:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment also note that Auto Retailing History in Asia, M. Ahmed Quraishi, Quraishi Motors, Motor Walah, M. Ahmed Quraishi all have incomplete AfD's pointing here as well. It's not clear whether some of the votes above are for these pages or not.  However, these pages don't really look all that related to me, some may be notable while others may not be.  Perhaps the other AfD notices could be removed?  Or pointed to a new discussion?  --Interiot 17:52, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - this is a multinomination so the votes can be taken, unless otherwise stated, to apply to all. All the articles were created by the same person at about the same time.  IMHO they are all a means of advertising the one company. BlueValour 17:57, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete as advertisment. Heimstern Läufer 03:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep and re-write. Rich Farmbrough, 11:57 4 October 2006 (GMT).
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.