Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thanga Tamil Selvan

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep. (non-admin closure) Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 12:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanga Tamil Selvan[edit]

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Article about a state level politician with a single reference, which is a broken link to a PDF titled "list of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011". No evidence of substantial coverage in independent sources, fails WP:GNG at this time. ST47 (talk) 20:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:09, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:09, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Passes Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Politicians as both an elected state-level politician and a former national-level elected politician. See this article, for example. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 20:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Obviously passes WP:POLITICIAN per sources that take less time to find than it takes to write a deletion nomination. And the nominator's tagging of an article that said that the subject was a current MLA and former member of parliament for speedy deletion per WP:A7 is very difficult to interpret as anything other than racism. Would you have dreamt of doing the same with an equivalent article about a former member of the US House of Representatives or the UK House of Commons? The fact that the nominator is an administrator makes it even less likely that this was an innocent mistake. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:31, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Yes, the article needs some sourcing improvement — but people who have verifiably held seats in national and state legislatures pass WP:NPOL #1 right on its face, and we ultimately evaluate notability based on the existence of suitable sources and not solely on how many of them are already present in the current version of the article. Legislators do get media coverage, and Google News is your friend — there are media hits out the wazoo here, more than enough for a keep regardless of the article's current state, and heaven knows I could easily find even more if I could read or write Tamil. Bearcat (talk) 23:20, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.