Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raghunath Singh Thakur

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The result was delete. KTC (talk) 01:42, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Raghunath Singh Thakur[edit]

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I can't find any reliable sources with significant coverage. The article does not cite any (one link is just a listing mentioning him, the other is not independent). Google News search returns no results for "Raghunath Singh Thakur" [1]. It does return a few for "R. S. Thakur"[2], but it seams that those are not about the same person. Google Books search returns few hits for "Raghunath Singh Thakur"[3], but it seams that those are about some prince. Vanjagenije (talk) 22:34, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I had hoped the creator had some material to back up his claims. It is, after all, his autobiography. Fails WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO. Not enough, or really any, coverage in reliable sources to verify and sustain an article. The claim for discovering Artemisinin is not supported by our article which says "[Artemisinin] was discovered by Tu Youyou, a Chinese scientist, who was awarded half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery." Acording to GScholar his work is not highly cited so he fails WP:PROF. Jbh ^Talk 23:05, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 14:05, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 14:05, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 14:05, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I was wondering how this showed up at AfD. I thought I had an active BLPPROD on it. Turns out the author, User:R S Thakur1, created several of these including Ram Simha Thakur which exipred today [4] and Dr R S Thakur which was speedied. This is obviously shameless self promotion. Jbh^Talk 20:37, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, at least those two were about a different R S Thakur,[5] of LIT. Perhaps they were added in order to disambiguate that R S Thakur from this one at CIMAP. – Fayenatic London 23:15, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I removed the PROD from this page, thinking that the award tended to indicate notability, and that the claimed work on artemisinin sounded important. Searching for Thakur & artemisinin confirms that he did publish some papers on the subject, but I did not see any that refer to him by name in the text as having made notable advances; they merely cited his research. Although he was head of CIMAP, that does not appear to be a "major academic institution", so his directorship does not establish criterion 6 at WP:ACADEMIC. – Fayenatic London 23:26, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as above. Just a WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY, with few sources to back up claims on a quick search. As a BLP, this would be a big problem. ~ NottNott talk|contrib 11:39, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- For the record, the article's creator has identified himself as Ravindranath Singh Thakur (note: different first name), and denied that this article was about himself.[6] – Fayenatic London 13:43, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fail WP:NOTE. Lack of significant secondary source coverage independent of the subject himself. — Cirt (talk) 07:14, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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