Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saurabh Kumar Sharma

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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:15, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Saurabh Kumar Sharma[edit]

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Non-notable politician, lacking in-depth, non-trivial support. References are single line mentions or quotes. Fails WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. reddogsix (talk) 09:17, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. I'm seeing one somewhat substantive piece here, but the rest of the sources are all one-line mentions. Furthermore, most of those mentions, and a fair bit of the piece I linked, is related to his election to a post which is not inherently notable; as such I think WP:BLP1E applies here. Also, of the students involved in the JNU sedition row, we have articles on two (Kanhaiya Kumar and Shehla Rashid Shora), and an article about a third (Umar Khalid) was deleted following this discussion. A google news search shows that Sharma has several orders of magnitude less news coverage than Khalid, whose article was deleted. Given that both have claims to notability largely stemming from the same incident, I'd suggest this is precedence for deletion. Vanamonde (talk) 09:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:03, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:03, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Remove Weak delete tag - Substantive pieces are listed here, here, here, here and [1]. A Google news search shows that Sharma has 1370 results mentions which is good enough for a student leader who is still under age of 30. His election to a post which was highly covered by national media and his action on that post started an international debate, his hunger strike for a higher scholarship for students helped many across India, his leadership against sexual harassment in university makes him worthy of a Wikipedia page. Also, his action started JNU sedition row, and we have articles on two opposing student leaders (Kanhaiya Kumar and Shehla Rashid Shora), which makes it necessary to show information about Sharma to keep Wikipedia neutral of political bias. Comparing him with (Umar Khalid) is unjustified. Kr.saurabh10 (talk) 14:17, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kr.saurabh10 Please see Wikipedia:Other stuff exists and Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions there is no comparison among these people and their level of WP:SIGCOV--DBig Xrayᗙ 19:50, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Considering how popular the name Saurabh Kumar is, in India, I am frankly unimpressed that it only threw 1k google hits. This claim of google hit is useless anyway. --DBig Xrayᗙ 19:54, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete per Vanamonde. The 2016-03-19 piece in the Times of India is the only substantial coverage; the non-English refs provided by Kr.saurabh10 are fairly trivial as well. Student politics are generally not covered in great detail on Wikipedia, simply being a student leader is never inherently notable. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:25, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Non-notable student activist lacks non-trivial coverage from independent reliable sources and no evidence of satisfying either WP:BIO or WP:NPOL. GSS (talk|c|em) 17:40, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I looked at the sources, and realized I was about to write exactly what Power~enwiki and Vanamonde wrote; only one of the sources is really about him, and even it isn't very long, the rest are two sentence mentions. --GRuban (talk) 12:24, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:NBIO due to lack of WP:SIGCOV. Failed WP:NPOLITICIAN by miles. Agree with the other editors above. --DBig Xrayᗙ 19:50, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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