Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma

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The result was keep. Sandstein 07:49, 27 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma[edit]

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Could find trivial mentions related to Rajendra Prasad, but no evidence of "significant coverage". The Sahitya Akademi ref is an entry on his son Nalin Vilochan Sharma. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 12:51, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Anbu121 (talk me) 21:12, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Anbu121 (talk me) 21:12, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete notability is not inherited, and having notable proteges doesn't make you notable. Gigs (talk) 18:30, 15 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 15:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This looks like a classic salvageable article to me. See [1] for one of his recently published works. I'm not quite sure how to look for the Hindustan Times article cited but there's no reason to think it's made up, it should be easily verified (or otherwise) by those with access to a relevant archive. Andrewa (talk) 01:17, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I think that's exactly right, a classic salvageable article. There is no reason to disbelieve the statements of the article, discounting flowery prose. There are such refs like that to the Hindustan Times embedded in the text, but their online archives don't go back far enough. That book "Indian Indologists: Ram Sharan Sharma, Rahul Sankrityayan, Ravindra Kumar, H. D. L. Abraham, Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma" appears to be partly on him, from the title, so the GNG should be easily met from it. His book, see Paramarthadarsana or Paramarthadarsana was republished in 1994, so still of interest. Ramavatara Sarma 65 gbooks hits & Ramavatar Sarma 39 hits & Ramavtar Sarma 6 & Ramavtara Sarma 11 & Ram avatar Sarma 5 are variants that go to the same guy.John Z (talk) 08:33, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but someone should do a search in Hindi sources. The sources cited above are not by themselves enough to establish notability under WP:GNG or WP:SCHOLAR, but in this case I think we ought to cede the benefit of the doubt in the likelihood of significant Hindi coverage, given his apparent status as a leading academic. The sourcing needs to be a lot better, but I think it's quite likely he will meet the criteria if we can get someone conversant in Hindi to help out. --Batard0 (talk) 18:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: That Indian Indologists book is from Books LLC, which gets it from us, so it doesn't count. But the other, online, sources and the ones in the article already, but not formatted the usual way, like the Hindustan Times article on him are still more than enough IMHO. The problem is that these sources are not online, so need a trip to a good library.John Z (talk) 20:58, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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