Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nagendra Ji

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 19:43, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nagendra Ji[edit]

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per WP:POLITICIAN. Lift incident is definitely not encyclopedic. - Vivvt (Talk) 13:24, 4 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 23:24, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 23:24, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The subject has worked over multiple states namely Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Also, name "Nagendra Nath Tripathi" has been included in his Wikipedia page along with "Nagendra Ji". "Ji" is widely used among Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Getting stuck in lift got wide coverage by many newspapers as it was during time of Bihar elections and was called controversy by senior leaders as also mentioned in article. (talk) 23:21, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Honorific titles such as "Ji", "Sri", etc., are excluded from article names (see WP:NAME). As people have argued here, getting stuck in a lift is a single event, and it didn't even attract substantial coverage. For a politician to have an article on Wikipedia, they need to pass WP:POLITICIAN — Stringy Acid (talk) 08:36, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Just to be clear, the subject is an officer at the state level of a particular political party, and is not an elected state-level official. Hence, no inherent notability under WP:POLITICIAN. And as noted by the nominator, getting stuck in a lift doesn't confer encyclopedic notability. NewYorkActuary (talk) 23:28, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The subject's name could be a source of confusion. The surname "Ji" doesn't seem legitimate to me, and is most likely the gender-neutral honorific used in India. I see a Hindustan Times article stating his name as "Nagendra Nath Tripathi". In any case, apart from brief mentions, either names don't return many results, despite the recent Bihar/UP elections getting wide coverage. — Stringy Acid (talk) 19:45, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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