Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunil Dutta


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The result was delete. Deor (talk) 15:05, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Sunil Dutta
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I don't think the subject meets Wikipedia's notability criteria, and this article reads as indiscriminate publicity and the subject is most notable for a News event. I recognise that this article existed before that event but I still don't see that it meets the notability criteria. Jamie Kitson (talk) 13:49, 21 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - Dutta is not notable and the page is mostly just a list of his writing which looks more like a personal homepage or an advertisement for him. Datavortex (talk) 14:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Dutta has received significant coverage in multiple independent sources satisfying WP:BASIC that predate the current wall-to-wall coverage. See, e.g., LAPD's anti-death penalty writer, LAPD Officer: Dorner Case Proves It's Time For Police To Stop Investigating Police and Dutta Brings Writing Prowess to Homeland Security. Combine that with the worldwide current coverage Indian-American cop defends use of lethal force. 24.151.10.165 (talk) 17:44, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * This doesn't appear to be "significant coverage", as specified by WP:BASIC. laobserved.com and laist.com seem to be local blogs which don't even have their own wikipedia entries and the chds.us entry seems to be from the university he went to. Jamie Kitson (talk) 12:02, 27 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. The article Dutta wrote is probably newsworthy, but not notable, but Dutta is not even newsworthy.  This is temporary notoriety, not notability. WP:109PAPERS. A year from now, no one will recognize his name.  This is his 15 minutes of fame; see WP:15MOF. TJRC (talk) 03:56, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not news. We do not cover every and all editorials people write on an issue. Dutta outraged some people, but he is not notable. If he continues to write editorials that generate a lot of response things may change, but as of now he is not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Not NotablePreetikapoor0 (talk) 01:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 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.