Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bishakha Datta

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 keep. Yunshui ^雲 _水 10:27, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bishakha Datta[edit]

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I am not seeing how this person meets Wikipedia:Notability (people). Ego Hunter (talk) 05:39, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:52, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:52, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:52, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar ♔ 16:38, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Notable alright, co-founder of NGO "Point of View", and "first Indian to be appointed on Wikimedia board of trustees" in 2010 [1] --Ekabhishek^talk 13:51, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Disclosure: I have worked with Bishakha Datta on two WMF Board of Trustees committees; thus my comments should not be interpreted as either a "delete" or "keep". Ekabhishek, I'd hope anyone opining here would read the article; however, notability is not inherited. Being a founder of an organization does not make one notable, even if the organization is notable. Sitting on the Board of Trustees of a notable organization does not make one notable. It's quite possible there is more information about Bishaka's activities, perhaps in Indian-language sources; however, I note that there is only an article about her on English Wikipedia. Are you aware of any additional information? Risker (talk) 16:22, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Risker. I didn't find WP:NOTINHERITED specifically mentioning that "founders of notable organization are not notable." Does it? Do clarify. In any case, that is not why she is notable, as there are numerous Indian-language media references found here, also mentioning her documentary film work. (also see WP:INDAFD). -Ekabhishek^talk 11:21, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep — First and most importantly, Datta's work as an filmmaker, journalist, member of the Wikimedia Foundation board, and her work with Point of View feel like, together, they should rise to the WP:N bar. The article does not do as good a good job of establishing notability as it should but we should fix the article, not delete it. The recent additions help enormously.

Second, the nominator seems to have 30 minute total contribution history to Wikipedia that exclusively involved nominating visible Wikimedia leaders' biographies for deletion. That contribution history, the username and user page, seems to me like somebody it might be trying to make a WP:POINT. Full disclosure, I found this because they also nominated the biography about me in the same session. Additionally, I have met Datta but I do not know her well. —mako ๛ 03:58, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy keep (WP:NPASR) I bookmarked this page because of the hollow nomination statement which substitutes an absence of knowledge and an implied plea for help (AKA trolling) for WP:BEFORE methodology. And now I see that a review of the nominator's contributions reveals a planned 30-minute attack on Wikipedia. These are the two main planks of WP:SK, WP:SK#1 no argument for deletion, and WP:SK#2 unquestionable disruption. Unscintillating (talk) 04:57, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep Per above and appears to be one of several bad-faith nominations. --I am One of Many (talk) 07:15, 11 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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