Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/V Aravind Subramanyam

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:57, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

V Aravind Subramanyam[edit]

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The subject of this article appears to be known either as Sastha Aravind or as V Aravind Subramanyam, who is a run-of-the-mill author. There are at least three problems with this article, notability, tone, and conduct of the submitter. Google search on either of the names shows that the subject is in Wikipedia (we knew that) and advertises. The Google hits all appear to be commercial or vanity, not significant coverage; so author notability is not met. As to tone, I have not tried to remove the puffery, so I don't know how much will be left when it is cleaned up, but the article is promotional.

The author has been persistent in pushing this article through into article space. It was moved into article space as VAS, and then draftified by User:Mccapra (thank you), and the redirect from article space to draft space was properly tagged for R2. It was then moved back into article space as SA, and was then tagged as copyvio (of the author's own puffery, but still copyvio). The author then hijacked the redirect that had been tagged for R2. But AFD is not a conduct forum, and AFD is a notability forum. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:12, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:12, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:12, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - See also https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/11956659/profile-of-shri-v-aravind-subramanyam-subramania-samajam as possible copyvio. (This may be copyvio of the author's own web site, but Wikipedia enforces copyright and copyleft strictly.) Robert McClenon (talk) 21:44, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I draftified this because the refs are all to closely affiliated sources. The creator has made no effort to improve the sourcing despite all their manoeuvres to get this back into mainspace. It’s a promotional BLP of a man who does not seem to me to be at all notable. I’m not able to search for sources in Tamil so I’m prepared to reconsider my !vote if another editor comes up with something. Mccapra (talk) 08:39, 10 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.