Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vikash Maharaj


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The result was   no consensus. Nja 247 08:42, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Vikash Maharaj

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This article is the recreation of Pt. Vikash Maharaj, which was speedy deleted, and was duplicated in Pandit Vikash Maharaj (b. 1957), which I made into a redirect and nominate as well. I searched the internet and could not find reliable third party sources that support a criterion of WP:MUSICBIO or WP:BIO. All I could find were mentions of performances, either trivial ones or written like press releases, but nothing to source the article information with, apart from the self-released press kit from which the article info is mostly taken. There is an album, but self-released over Amazon.com and CD Baby. The allmusic entry contains nothing except a mention of this album. It's unhelpful that the creator/editor is the subject's son. I love Indian classical music, but this article is a vanity page. Hekerui (talk) 01:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC) Hekerui (talk) 01:20, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related page because it is a redirect:


 * Keep - Seems notable. Badagnani (talk) 02:18, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * How exactly? You need to explain yourself. Hekerui (talk) 18:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Per our notability guidelines, as per the text of the article, indicating that this is a notable artist. Badagnani (talk) 01:39, 11 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:08, 13 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete unless notability can be established through reliable secondary sources. It is currently an entirely unsourced BLP with POV problems. Symplectic Map (talk) 01:57, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Has a fair amount of news and book coverage. I'm not convinced that that is enough for notability, but we seem to keep articles on Western Anglophone popular musicians and bands based on much less. Phil Bridger (talk) 00:13, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The mentions in the two books are trivial and Maharaj's son's quest to save Bismillah Khan is noble but not notable. A substantial number of articles are about other people with the same name. Hekerui (talk) 00:21, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
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