Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/P. J. Sudhakar

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 23:49, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P. J. Sudhakar[edit]

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Most sources in the article either mention him in passing or are articles or blogposts Sudhakar has written, which do not count towards notability.

This brief webindia123 article mentions that he won a Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award, but I am unsure if this is significant with respect to WP:NBIO

The only sources discussing him in any detail are about his claims of having received over 100 different degrees from these three articles from DNA India News 18 and The Hindu. The Hindu article asserts that he has over 15 PhDs, which they say he obtained by "distance learning". The Hindu article, also asserts that he has a record from the "Gunnies Book of Records" [sic], but he is not in the Guinness database at all [1]. These claims are very obviously self promotional and the "degrees" are probably from diploma mills, but as the sources are completely uncritical there's nothing that can be written about this. I note that the DNA India and News 18 stories are only available by archive and you cannot find them on the current versions of the websites, I don't know if that is because the news organisations deleted them because of concerns regarding the reliability of Sudhakar's claims or for some other reason.

Overall, I just don't think it's possible to write a neutral, non-promotional biography about this individual, given the uncritical nature of the sources. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:51, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Authors, and India. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:51, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
~~Of course you would thnk that, you probably only have like eleven degrees. Come back when you have at least fifty.~~ I'm sorry, that was rude, what I meant to say was delete per nom. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 18:51, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I cannot find any thesis under this name on Google Scholar nor anywhere else. Scopus has 3 P J Sudhakar's [2] but none are him (I have discounted P Justin Sudhakar, who has some research presence but goes by the name Justin). I tried variations and still didn't turn him up. Worldcat found two books [3] (looks like 3, but two are the same) by someone called Patnala Sudhakar. However, when I coaxed Google Translate to translate from Telugu (the orthography is off, but that is the language), it translated one title as "Dr. Ravuri Bharadwaja is the greatest writer of this century in Smati literature" and the other did not translate, so probably a name. Even if this is the same person, none of that verifies the existence of any thesis. Getting degrees does not imply an academic publishing career will follow, but with that many Ph.D.s you'd expect something somewhere (granted limitations with Scopus, but again, Scholar was a bust too). Of course, it's a nonsense. Life is too short to get that many degrees unless there is something dodgy about the degrees, so the uncritical acceptance of diploma mills looks right. And then there are the Indian news sources to consider, for which WP:NEWSORGINDIA is a useful caution. None of this stands up to scrutiny. Self promotional and not notable. Perhaps not quite a hoax article, but clearly one to delete. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 20:46, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as self-promoting nonsense. Mccapra (talk) 21:43, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Notability not found despite the claimed 119 academic degrees. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:35, 19 April 2024 (UTC).[reply]
Delete per nom and Sirfurboy research. The only credible claim to notability is most degrees in the world and it not only cannot be verified, all evidence points to not being true or real degrees. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 00:21, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The person don't meet general notability guidelines. Grabup (talk) 07:15, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above fails WP:GNG.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 07:29, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:GNG. Best, GPL93 (talk) 12:35, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I checked this out on the 19th and came back today for the garbage list, expecting to find it gone. But I guess the waiting period is mandatory, when we're reluctant to use a small snowball. Delete for pete's sakes. -The Gnome (talk) 14:49, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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