Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anant Bhardwaj

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The result was redirect to Instabase. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:36, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anant Bhardwaj[edit]

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Have already nominated Instabase (the company he founded) for deletion. Struggling to find independent in-depth coverage in reliable sources. References provided are either mentions-in-passing or rely almost exclusively on company produced material and/or quotations (fails WP:CORPDEPTH and/or WP:ORGIND). Lack of WP:SIGCOV. Article was created by a WP:SPA. Edwardx (talk) 19:07, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Update: The Instabase article was nominated for deletion on 20 October 2019. It was later withdrawn by the nominator. The result of the discussion was Speedy keep. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:646:400:9250:B55C:704E:F367:12C2 (talk) 22:03, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:22, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:22, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Just trivial mentions are not symptom of notability. All of the references are giving trivial mentions. For Wikipedia, we need in-depth research and mention in multiple independent source which lacks here. — Harshil ^{want to talk?} 16:49, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Meets WP:SIGCOV. He is the CEO of Instabase which is one of the unicorn companies with high profile media coverage. The company and he both do have independent in-depth coverage -- he has been interviewed on TV (Bloomberg TV, Cheddar Business), and many prominent news articles (Bloomberg, The Economic Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Cheddar, etc.) cover the company and him (please see below) WP:ASSERTN
- Bloomberg TV: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-10-21/the-business-model-behind-silicon-valley-s-newest-unicorn-video
- Bloomberg News: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/instabase-achieves-unicorn-status-and-finally-explains-what-it-does
- Cheddar TV: https://cheddar.com/media/instabase-hits-unicorn-status-on-million-raise/player
- San Francisco Business Times: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/21/s-f-startup-snags-105m-and-unicorn-status-on.html
- Economic Times: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/with-instabase-anant-bhardwaj-gives-us-a-brand-new-unicorn/articleshow/71698424.cms
- Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/DJFVW00120150831eb8vati2m
- CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/14/andreessen-horowitz-leads-23-million-round-in-instabase.html

Helloanant007 (talk) 07:20, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 06:57, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Instabase. Notability is not inherited. No coverage from reliable sources independent of Instabase. — Newslinger talk 22:24, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Instabase, since most of the article is about the company . DGG ( talk ) 10:26, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No significant coverage independent of Instabase. I think this article is about User:Helloanant007; their userpage's 2011 revision matches the education details in Anant Bhardwaj. Interesting how Instabase received significant coverage in the days following that article's deletion nomination. VoiceX is another article where this user seems to have a conflict of interest. Dee 03 19:47, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Dee03. There isn't any significant coverage outside Instabase and there is most likely a COI issue as well. Best, GPL93 (talk) 22:47, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Redirect to Instabase. Notability being inherited is not by itself grounds for deletion. It does not apply to situations where the fact of having a relationship to an entity inherently defines a public position that is notable in its own right, such as CEO of a company. Mungano (talk) 13:39, 30 October 2019 (UTC)— Mungano (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
- Our notability guideline for people does not carve out special exceptions for company executives. — Newslinger talk 20:58, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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