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. Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 18:36, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ravindra Kumar Mishra (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Poorly referenced promo piece / CV on a non-notable civil servant. Declined at AfC but moved into the main space by the author. A bit too old to draftify now, and in any case BEFORE finds no evidence of notability either, so probably no point in prolonging its misery. Fails WP:GNG / WP:BIO. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:48, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Technology, and India. DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:48, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bihar-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:01, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, I can't find any significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. Wikishovel (talk) 20:19, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Fails our general notability guideline as well as our our subject-specific guideline Monophile (talk) 20:39, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Fails WP:NBIO. No significant coverage in reliable secondary independent sources. I cannot find subject's work that has made any significant impact and achievement to be worthy of notice and noteworthy nationally or internationally. RangersRus (talk) 14:57, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: The man was a Civil service and the sources that support him are reliable like The Times of India, my position is to maintain in some way there is significant coverage and evident notoriety. Alon9393 (talk) 15:11, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you read WP:TOI, the Times of India needs to be used with caution as a reference. Either way, in the ToI references cited, Mishra is only mentioned in passing, and is not the subject of any of the articles. Merely being in the Civil Service and getting quoted briefly in the newspaper doesn't automatically confer notability per WP:Biographies of living persons. Wikishovel (talk) 15:56, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikishovel According to WP:TOI The Times of India you should look at it with caution, but the same does not happen with The Times somehow the colonialist mentality is prevalent here, I remind you that India and Pakistan have not They are under British rule and yoke and that does not mean they are irrelevant in history or in their own decisions. Auch Alon9393 (talk) 16:24, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If colonialist mentality were the problem, then we would expect all Indian newspapers to be judged unreliable on Wikipedia. But the consensus on Wikipedia is that WP:THEHINDU and WP:INDIANEXP, for example, are reliable sources, whereas the London WP:DAILYMAIL is regarded as a completely unreliable source, and is generally removed from articles on sight. Wikishovel (talk) 16:32, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Alon9393: I proposed this article for deletion because it doesn't demonstrate that the subject is notable. The three ToI articles referenced do not provide significant coverage of Mishra: they are not about him, but rather quoting something he has said about other matters. Even if the said publication didn't have reliability issues, these articles still would contribute nothing towards his notability. HTH, -- I DoubleGrazing (talk) 16:32, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - sadly, the Times of India used to be a reliable source, but its standards have fallen, and I’ve seen some AfDs recently that depend heavily upon that as the source that they claim proves notability. I don’t see significant coverage in any case. Bearian (talk) 01:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: could not find significant coverage for this person besides the TIA reference, which I wouldn't consider reliable. There was also a Hindustan Times source, although I will again not count that as reliable. SirMemeGod  17:28, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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