Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vijay Kumar (filmmaker)

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The result was delete--Ymblanter (talk) 10:39, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Vijay Kumar (filmmaker)[edit]

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Person noted for a single event: an airport detention for carrying brass knuckles and jihadi literature. Does not appear to have even gone to a trial. Although Vijay Kumar is a very common name, this particular Vijay Kumar does not appear at all notable outside of this single, non-notable incident. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 21:13, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: IMDB page for the name has several titles listed as sound editor, but again, who knows if it is the same person. Also, Patriots' Forum, the Delhi group with which news articles say he is affiliated, does not have him listed as an officer, or any mention of the arrest in their Sept 2010 archives. I'm not finding much else to expand notability... —Gaff ^ταλκ 22:13, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:21, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 00:10, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. As currently written, the fact the Vijay Kumar is a filmmaker is irrelevant. It talks solely about a single event (his arrest on entry to the United States). This doesn't make him notable. I also searched for info about his documentary filmmaking career, to see if he'd qualify there. IMDB doesn't qualify as a reliable source -- and even as a starting point, it may not help, as I don't think any of the "Vijay Kumar's" in IMDB is a documentary filmmaker. His name is so common that it's difficult to know which search hits are about him, but I didn't find anything definite. For example, there this [1], but it may or may not be he, and it's not an independent source. --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 00:16, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per my comments above, vaidated by independent review of another editor. —Gaff ^ταλκ 02:34, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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