Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vihang Naik


 * 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   delete. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:13, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Vihang Naik

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Non notable poet. Fails notability guideline.Page created by Sachin Ketkar from the same university.Wikipedia is not for promoting colleagues. No media coverage.No major awards. Few book reviews act as references but the references say nothing about the notability of the subject.
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 19:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
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Strong keep Translations from Gujarati to English is indeed a small genre which might not have a wider coverage, but is worth keeping on an encyclopedia. Hence common sense would drive one to not be so uptight about the wikipedia notability policy, which was a move to prevent personal advertisements. And this page is not something written in praise of some goody goody street store. It is quite informative, for a regular wikipedia reader like me, and for many other wikipedia readers who are voracious information gatherers.Manorathan (talk) 18:55, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Delete The above vote strong keep seems quite strange and un-encyclopedic in its opinion. An author may be a good translator but if notability cannot be found, sufficient coverages are not available then the article doesn't worth to be in an encyclopedia. There are many things in google search which might be informative but may not be notable enough to keep in wiki. Wiki is based on wiki policies.The subject has nothing in particular that can make it notable. An article may be informative like a newspaper article but it may not be notable for being kept in wiki or in encyclopedias. For the time being it's absolute delete. Fails general notability guideline. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.211.84.226 (talk) 20:41, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Keep I looked at the google results for Vihang Naik and at the links in the article. The link to the Other Voices Poetry Project is probably the strongest plus. I'm not sure how notable the Other Voices Poetry Project is, but it seems to be noted with decent respect in other articles about poetry and claims to be UNESCO recognized (I tried going to the UNESCO website to check that out, but it's incredibly confusing navigating around that site).

On the other hand, the Google results seem inconclusive. There seems to be some random businessman of the same name, and most of the references to Vihang Naik poetry are blogs/product entries. However, that's not surprising in my mind, because international poetry tends to not to be covered in the mass media, and thus reviewers of international poetry would probably be lower down on the Google weighting process than stores and blogs (I admit I'm speculating here), but for certain topics this seems to be the case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jztinfinity (talk • contribs) 20:59, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Follow-up, I changed my vote to keep, based on the fact that while the UNESCO poetry journal list ( http://www.unesco.org/poetry/ ) is no longer online (I don't know why, they still have links to it within the UNESCO site), an archived copy shows that Other Voices Project is a UNESCO recognized poetry journal (I would put up a link to the exact archived copy, but the wayback machine seems to be down), I'm not sure how much that means, but it implies a degree of recognition.

Jztinfinity (talk) 01:52, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth here's the archived copy of the page - now you can say it wasn't important if it got broken, but personally I think UNESCO's just a sprawling organization that doesn't take care of it's website. In any case I just wanted to put this on the record so that it's, well, on the record. Jztinfinity (talk) 23:26, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - the link is broken and do not exist.If the link would have been of importance then UNESCO would have never broken the link and being published in one UNESCO recognized journal or site doesn't qualify the notability at all.There should be INDEPENDENT reliable resources talking about the notability of this subject. If you this the link alone is sufficient to keep this article then wiki has to start articles upon everybody who has been published there. Other Voices in Poetry is not a reputed project. --Diameter (talk) 15:58, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Delete Other Voices project claim to be UNESCO recognized but nothing in the net proves it. Secondly it may be a good online site or magazine but not a strong and reliable reference which can alone signify the notability of this person. Thirdly this is an Indian poet and no Indian media covers about this poet.leave out his notability. Fails WP:BIO and WP:GNG. So delete.--Diameter (talk) 21:41, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable writer.  Fails all of the requirements of WP:BK and WP:AUTHOR. Qworty (talk) 18:37, 16 May 2011 (UTC)


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We want to recreate this page with true facts and more details about Mr. Vihang Naik and his poetry Books. Vishal Joshi 06:42, 7 November 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vis says (talk • contribs)