Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vishal Kandukuri


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 02:42, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Vishal Kandukuri

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This appears to be a non-notable entrepreneur with very few reliable sources. Most sources seem to be written in telugu, and some of the english sources the article had were clippings hosted on a fanblog dedicated to the subject. The closest to a reliable source we get here appears to be Postnoon, which describes itself as a 'hyperlocal' newspaper according to their Facebook page and official website. I don't read telugu, so I'm not able to translate the clippings listed as sources.

I haven't been able to dig up better sources, and most hits appear to be either blogs or videos by the subject himself.

I should also note that this article (and a couple of other related articles) have been the target of heavy POV-pushing, with multiple sockpuppets. Bjelleklang -  talk 21:33, 8 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTABLE. Cheers, &Lambda; u α  (Operibus anteire) 22:14, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt No major claim of notability, and seems to be promotional. Sopporting salting to prevent continuous re-creation. Mdann52 (talk) 11:12, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Might one day be notable, but is at present no more than locally noticed.  Acroterion   (talk)   15:15, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep per WP:BIO in particular:


 * Kandukuri has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources such as Postnoon, see http://postnoon.com/2012/09/22/be-the-change-you-want/74912 Postnoon is a written English based newspaper based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, and is considered notable enough per its article on the Dutch Wikipedia: nl:Postnoon. He has also been covered at by Hybiz TV, an online news media based in Hyderabad as well. Wether the subject is notable hyperlocally is irrelevant for Wikipedia due to WP:NOTPAPER. Furthermore, Kandukuri has been a speaker at TED per File:Vishal Kandukuri delivering talk at TED conference.jpg and File:Vishal_Kandukuri_talking_at_TED_conference.jpg. All this, in sum, makes him notable per WP:BIO. Wether the article is an ad or whatever is irrelevant for an AfD, that's a content dispute and does not merit deletion. WP:FIXIT. &mdash;Ahnoneemoos (talk) 15:14, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The video was mentioned (although not by name) in the nomination and is self-published. Go to the site, look just above the video and you'll see a link titled "How to upload my business videos". Basically, the site appears to be a service where businesses can upload their own videos and hence not useful for notability.
 * The images you refer to doesn't really help either; they only prove that he was at a TED Conference. He probably gave a speech, but we don't have any context. For all we know, he could have been onstage for two minutes giving some background information as part of someone elses speech. We simply don't know, so there's nothing there to base a claim that he's notable on.
 * Postnoon is probably the best of the sources listed in the article. However, when they describe themselves as "hyperlocal" one of the things I'm concerned about is that they hype up local stuff and make it more important than it really is. I'm not saying that this is the case here at all, but the general lack of coverage gives me the impression that he is the non-notable CEO of a local startup. Bjelleklang  -  talk 16:03, 11 January 2013 (UTC)


 * No, the video is not self-published. Did you even click on the link? It opens a form to CONTACT Hybiz TV. It is NOT an upload form like YouTube. This is quite normal with pretty much all news sources. Remember, news is a business, not an altruistic service. Regarding TED, his talk was at TEDx, specifically at TEDx Youth @ Alexander Rd, see . Regarding "hyperlocal", that just means that the newspaper focuses exclusively on matters that are relevant solely to the local community. The hyper- prefix in this context mean "overly" or "excessive". The use of hyper- and its antonym hypo- is common in medicine. It does not mean hyper as in "hype". &mdash;Ahnoneemoos (talk) 19:44, 11 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:17, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. I have been somewhat on the fence about this, not least because I've spent some time working on the article; the fact remains, as I see it, that there is only one reliable source, namely Postnoon. The Hybiz TV video appears to be self-published - while it's not a YouTube-like site where anybody can freely upload their content, they still invite business people to submit their own videos for publication on the site. So there's some editorial discretion as to what is published on the Hybiz TV site, but it's not comparable to a news site. One reliable source does not meet WP:GNG - two sources don't either, so even if Hybiz TV had been reliable, it wouldn't have changed anything. The excessive and rather unpleasant sockpuppetry doesn't help, but the important point is that the subject's notability is not sufficient, quite independently of the activity of his fans. --bonadea contributions talk 11:16, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
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