Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Supratim Dutta

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The result was Delete. —Sean Whitton / 11:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Supratim Dutta

An otherwise unremarkable, and unnoted, person who survived an unusual injury after a car accident. All this is here, and in the wider world, is a press report about a single incident. Per Wikipedia:BLP#Articles about people notable only for one event ... this belongs in wikinews not here. There are lots of news articles about the single incident but nothing prior. No appropriate article I can find to redirect or merge it to Peripitus (Talk) 06:53, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - per WP:ONEEVENT and WP:NOT#RipleysBelieveItOrNot (and a tad of WP:OR on the medical explanation). LonelyBeacon (talk) 07:14, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your concern. I would have thought that the person is not important here. What is important here is the event, and the exceeding rarity of this. If I were given a choice I would like to record such events for posterity, just for their rarity and uniqueness.

The book "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" by George M. Gould (http://www.amazon.com/Anomalies-and-Curiosities-of-Medicine/dp/B001B0A17U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216391769&sr=8-2) was compiled by Gould (and his friend Pyle), by resorting to such "single", "insignificant" events. They had all been published in separate journals and in separate years (separated by centuries!). If the authors of those single and insignificant events had chosen NOT to publish those events, such significant book would never have been produced.

Who knows after a year another similar even occurs and then another and then another, and then one could make a significant book out of it. Doctors could perhaps study those cases, to know how to deal with such cases in future. Lay people would read such books for their sheer amazing quality.

Thanks and Regards Anil AggrawalAnil1956 (talk) 14:40, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - While thank goodness this is not something that most people will see in their lifetime, the fact that people's bodies are pierced or penetrated and survive is not uncommon in and if itself. As noted, the rod missed major organs. Is he lucky -- very much so. Notable by wikipedia's standards ... no. LonelyBeacon (talk) 15:51, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
comment some single events can be notable, but at the least we'd need some references that others have thought so. DGG (talk) 17:24, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete My congratulations to Supratim for coming through his ordeal. But the event is notable, not Supratim himself. I remember reading about a similar accident almost a decade ago at a construction site. That man also survived. I don't remember that man's name and ten years later, I won't remember Supratim's either. Delete and add incident into a larger article on road/construction accidents or create an new article about accidents involving objects piercing through the body. The article itself in not in Wikipedia style. I suspect, a large portion (if not all) of it is a copy paste from Indian Express. That in itself is a reason to delete. ChiragPatnaik (talk) 12:06, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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