Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Babu Gogineni

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 of the debate was Keep. Deathphoenix ʕ 14:36, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Babu Gogineni

This article on Babu Gogineni was originally contributed by me, user:Skollur. But another user with a similar userid, user:S_kollur started a malicious campaign alleging that I am none other than Babu Gogineni himself. Believing this allegation, a wikipedia administrator User:Gurubrahma categorized the article as one for deletion as it is an autobiographical article.

Though I think that Babu Gogineni is a notable person, other wikipedia users may not think so. Let there be a democratic decision on this point and then decide whether this page should be kept as it is, in a modified form, or deleted completely. Whith this intention I replace the template. Skollur

• Weak keep without getting involved in whatever dispute is going on between these two users, which I won't try to figure out - IHEU is notable, so as the executive director this guy is moderately notable. The article needs some cleanup but isn't an obvious vanity page (well, except for the part about writing an Encarta article - that's not terribly useful even if true). Opabinia regalis 07:19, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as notable. RGTraynor 08:44, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I prodded the article but violation of WP:AUTO was only one of the three grounds or so I had for PROD-ding. delete as NN and apologies to user:Skollur if I have hurt his feelings by my seeming aspersion of vanity/ violation of WP:AUTO. --Gurubrahma 11:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - Considering the standards of WP:BIO, upon what grounds are you asserting that the subject is NN? RGTraynor 15:49, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per Opabinia regalis; re PROD, the article makes claims to notability, per Skollur is not an autobio, and I fail to see the "thinly veiled advert" (advert for what ?). Angus McLellan (Talk)
• Keep. Rationalism and rationalism organizations are an important part of the Indian scence, both contemporary and historical. Rationalist organizations in India tend to be like James Randi in the US and debunk what they consider superstitions. Given that advocacy, something inherently POV, is one of their most important goals, I'm impressed by the NPOV tone of this article. Interlingua ^talk 13:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per Interlingua. W guice 20:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. This is an auto-bio. Many claims are nowhere except in his own controversial interview. The claim that he is a rationalist intellectual is based only on a degree in microbiology (in his own words in the newsletter that he edited later -"after a first degree in biology, I took a break from college and have not returned ever since!")-, some gossip articles in a quarterly newsletter that he edited, and a single small contribution in the Encarta on M.N.Roy.

This article as well as an interview in the newsletter that he edited later, it is claimed that he is the Founder-General Secretary of Rationalist Association of India. Is this correct? In the web site of IHEU where he was employed for nearly 10 years, there are announcements about the 75th anniversary of Rationalist Association of India at Thiruvananthapuram in the year 2006. See links [1] [2]

That means Rationalist Association of India was founded somewhere near the year 1930. How did he become the founder general secretary of it decades before his own birth?

I am a rationalist. Still I vote for deleting this article.

S_kollur

• Keep Exectutive Director of IHEU is probably notable ex officio. If it's POV or inaccurate it can be fixed but no need to delete it. Eluchil404 01:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Gogineni is at Hyderabad now, not at London where IHEU has head quarters. The present Company Secretary and Director of Operations of IHEU is Suresh Lalvani. S_kollur

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