Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/T. V. S. R. Appa Rao


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 21:25, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

T. V. S. R. Appa Rao

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tagged for notability for 5 years; I couldn't verify notability Boleyn (talk) 22:17, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. If this does survive AfD, I will be interested in someone reminding me what our policy is vis-a-vis reflecting lists such as this one, of 125 publications.--Epeefleche (talk) 03:04, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * This is certainly a difficult one. Technically many in the list do not meet the definition of a publication as many of them are talks or lectures. Mkdw talk 07:17, 18 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete No claim to notability under WP:AUTHOR or WP:ACADEMIC. While TSVR Appa Rao has a seemingly large body of work, no reliable and independent sources he is the subject of the publication has been brought forth to suggest these are leading publications in the academic community. Furthermore, many of the 'publications' are talks and not studies or papers published in scientific journals. Lastly, the India Express source trivially mentioned Rao. A scholar and news search do not reveal any independent sources. Mkdw talk 07:23, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I would also like to point out that BLP directs, "Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page". This page has for five years been hosted with no improvement. Unless this changes in seven days I can't see any basis that it could be kept. Mkdw talk 17:43, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete- Fails WP:GNG, WP:BASIC, WP:RS, WP:ACADEMIC, WP:BIO, WP:GOOGLE. Not notable to Wikipedia. --Bharathiya (talk) 01:47, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * DElete. Can't manage a GS h-index greater than 7. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:32, 21 January 2013 (UTC).
 * Delete. Per the above deletes.--Epeefleche (talk) 13:45, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. A list of 125 "papers" (most of which aren't even papers) isn't enough for notability.  I've looked them up on Google Scholar; they're good papers with reasonable numbers of citations, but there's no evidence of anything significant enough to keep under WP:BIO or WP:ACADEMIC.  We need independent reliable sources to keep, and I'm not finding any.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imareaver (talk • contribs) 16:23, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
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