Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/P. Gururaja Bhat

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The result was keep. –MuZemike 02:03, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

P. Gururaja Bhat[edit]

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Fails to met WP:BIO, not enough evidence to be called as notable, sorry kaeiou (talk) 00:44, 16 February 2010 (UTC)--kaeiou (talk) 00:52, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:15, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Several of the links didn't work - and one of the few that did bemoaned the fact that Bhat's work hadn't reached the public. Maybe he deserves to be notable, but he isn't. StAnselm (talk) 10:24, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The links in the article were poor, but there are other references on the web. The Dr. Paduru Gururaja Bhat Memorial Trust has a decent biography, while this book interacts with Bhat's work.
- Expand the article with the additional info might help to understand. Thanks.--kaeiou (talk) 12:52, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: as per above references to biography and bibliography. Various references to role as historian and archeologist of significance to history of Tulu Nadu eg "K.M. Kaveriappa, Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore University, said ... that historian Paduru Gururaja Bhat had laid the foundation for the study of the cultural history of the Tulunadu region." http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/01/stories/2009090159500300.htm In any case this is a stub - there are enough easily findable indications of potential notability, so why can't this be left until someone with the time can research and expand the subject? Deletion on the basis of broken links suggests that creating Wikipedia is going to be a labour of Sysyphus. Opbeith (talk) 22:30, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~Weak Keep doesn't meet notability under WP:Prof: his work is not widely cited. This article (under a different name) was nominated for deletion 3 years ago (Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dr.P.Gururaja_Bhat). The result at that time was no consensus. There's been plenty of time since then for article expansion, but the only change to the article has been a modification to footnote #1, and the addition of a date of death. I think it's safe to say that nobody is interested in this person. -- Radagast3 (talk) 12:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Dr. Paduru Gururaja Bhat Memorial Trust page, put together by his "family and friends," mentions a number of awards, although I do not know how significant they are. It also states "The credit of discovering the Iron Age remains in South Kanara for the first time and bringing to light the earliest Kannada copper plate in Karnataka should go rightly to Dr Bhat," which suggests that credit is generally assigned to someone else. -- Radagast3 (talk) 02:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Several sources confirm that the subject has made significant impact in his scholarly discipline, per WP:PROF criterion 1, such as [1] ("Gururaja Bhat discovered the first megalithic site consisting of port-hole chambers...subsequently he located Megalithic sites at Bir-Male..."), [2] ("archaeological research, however, in its true sense began some time in the sixth decade of the twentieth century when P. Gururaja Bhat started working for his doctoral thesis...") and [3] ("All workers in this field are greatly indebted to the work of Gururaja Bhat (1975)..."). Phil Bridger (talk) 20:22, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad someone responded to my challenge. I'm changing my vote to "Weak Keep," and placing one of those references in the article. -- Radagast3 (talk) 07:39, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Someone should ask the trust for permission to use his photo. -- Radagast3 (talk) 08:47, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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