Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vellaippan Velayudam Thanga Thirupathy


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The result was   delete. KTC (talk) 18:21, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Vellaippan Velayudam Thanga Thirupathy

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The inventions claimed in the article seem improbable to me and the subject of the article does not appear to be notable. There are a number of references, but only two go to what could be reliable sources. First a US patent that strikes me as bizarre. Second is a scan of what appears to be a magazine article in Nadar Peedam which describes itself as a Tamil monthly, but does not have any recent publications on its web page. I don't speak Tamil, so I can't tell much about the publication, but a search for the publication's name in English comes up with few hits. SchreiberBike talk 05:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete I searched for magazine and newspaper articles about the topic and found nothing, including in 102 Indian newspapers. Also nothing substantial in a general Google search most sources originate from this Wikipedia article. Also searched using the Tamil name and very few sources, though a few looked promising Google Translate doesn't include Tamil. Nothing in Google Books that is noteworthy. Filing patents does not make a person notable. According to WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO need sources that are about Thanga Thirupathy. No obituaries published when he died in 2011? No remembrance of his life and career published in newspapers? -- Green Cardamom (talk) 03:01, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
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