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The result was keep. Independent reliable coverage added to meet WP:GNG. RL0919 (talk) 21:06, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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She's the first woman from her home state of Odishia to become a Marine Engineer serving on board a ship (according to the sources there are other female engineers who're land-based). While this achievement received some coverage in the Times of India, I'm not sure that it's notable enough to provide justification for an article here. Neiltonks (talk) 13:21, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment I'm not familiar with reliable Indian sources, but I've found many citations to add. I'll wait for someone else to come in and assess reliability. Got here from list of women-related deletion discussions. valereee (talk) 14:26, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Promotional article, and claim to notability is dubious at best. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 22:39, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. In reality, this is an engineering graduate, claim to notability is pretty dubious. WCM_email 13:18, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno, the fact she's the first woman to do something and that fact was covered in multiple sources -- if those sources are reliable, I'd say that's a claim to notability. Does anyone know if the sources are reliable? I don't want to !vote until we get that cleared up. valereee (talk) 13:26, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. I've given the article a thorough thumping to clean it up and remove tags. There are actually two claims made: (1) that Bibhusita Das is the first Odia woman to become a Marine Engineer and (2) that she is the the first woman from Odisha to serve as an officer on a shipping vessel. She is the main subject of an article in at least 6 news sources, including The Times of India, New Indian Express, The Hindu and Hindu BusinessLine. Stories were written by at least three different writers. Publication dates cluster around three points in time, January 2013, March 2013 and January 2018. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:03, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per Mary Mark Ockerbloom's assessment of sources, which from a quick glance at their user page appears to be expert-level. valereee (talk) 15:16, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per above. -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 17:52, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. @valereee In case you are still interested: the two big news RS in India are 'The Times of India' (TOI) and The Hindu. After that you have the New Indian Express, The Economic Times, The Telegraph and the Hindustan Times. There are some decent regionals such as the Deccan Chronicle etc. I'd put Firstpost and The Business Standard on the list too, but some may not agree. Cesdeva ^(talk) 18:08, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, cesdeva I knew someone would come in with that! :) I'm going to paste your post into my user page, as I do see a lot of articles about Indian nationals and other than The Times of India I have never been sure. valereee (talk) 18:18, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per Mary Mark Ockerbloom's post above. Thsmi002 (talk) 22:49, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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