Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. S. Balachandran

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, without prejudice. Should a new article be more completely sourced, this could certainly be re-evaluated. - Philippe | Talk 22:26, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

K. S. Balachandran[edit]

This page should be deleted because there is no evidence of notability per WP:BLP and WP:N. The article has been tagged for many moons, for numerous issues. The only source has a trivial mention of the subject, with a significant claim that can not be verified. It needs more reliable sources, as having one is not enough for the guidelines. Bearian (talk) 15:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and check related edits and editors I tried googling this name and came up with something a bit odd -- a wiki user account with that name.[1] Not unheard of, but the first edit to that user page was supposedly done by User:Akradecki back in September 2006.[2] Akradecki apparently made the first edit to User:Austexjoshua user page about the same time.[3] Neither edit was at all typical of Akradecki's edits.[4] I checked Akradecki's talk page and user contributions, and it looks like he was hounded by trolls and vandals before ceasing to edit in December. This bio article about a living person is too poorly sourced to keep, and those who have contributed text to it should review WP:COI and WP:Verifiability. --Edibility (talk) 05:02, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's called userfication. While it's usually done by moving pages, in this particular case, the usefying was done with a copy/paste. There's no harm here. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Gogo Dodo, I didn't know this. --Edibility (talk) 02:25, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This article is poorly sourced and the subject lacks notability. Stormbay (talk) 23:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I have done a Google Search and he asserts the notability.Quior (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Balachandran is a very common name in that part of India - I suspect, from reading some of the pages found at Google that these persons are not all the same. Asserting notability only helps it survive speedy deletion. I never proposed deleting it without an XfD discussion. Bearian (talk) 00:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might be wrong. We need opinion from WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation.Quior (talk) 01:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He is a notable person according to tamilvision among Sri Lankan Tamils.Quior (talk) 16:07, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No notablity at all. Looks like advertising. Igor Berger (talk) 01:00, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This Blog further supports his influence over ordinary Sri Lankan Tamil folks who are far away in Australia while K. S. Balachandran is living in Canada.Quior (talk) 02:16, 28 February 2008 (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.