Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K.S. Chathunny

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 delete due to lack of verifiability. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 04:57, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] K.S. Chathunny

Procedural nomination of article that I deprodded as not obviously non-notable but perhaps difficult to verify, at least in English. This is a supposedly major South Indian businessman who lived from 1919 to 1990. Article is POV and needs a cleanup and references if it is kept.

The article was prodded by User:Eluchil404 with the argument that the subject was a "Business man who does not clearly meet WP:BIO reads like an obituary but wikipedia is not a memorial". Nevertheless there is enough claims to notability here that I think this should be brought to AFD: "top business tycoon in the Seventies, with interest in Hotels, Hospitals, Tile Industries, Retail and Wholesale Textiles, Hardwares, Pharmacies, Real estate, Liqour etc."

Keep in mind that he died before the internet era and lived in a part of India that is probably not as well-connected as other parts of the world, and that googling and other searches may need to be done in Malayalam or other languages of the region. Tupsharru 09:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete unless verified and more details about his businesses, which are what make him potentially notable, are given. -- Kjkolb 10:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per my reasons given above. If he were truly notable there will be sources if only from the Indian print media to back up the claim of being a top business man. The fact that he fails the google test is, as Tupsharru says not terribly relevant, but WP:V is policy so we need something besides the author's say-so. Eluchil404 18:33, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete no sources, no details about his businesses. Recreate if more info becomes available. Baseball,Baby! ^{balls•strikes} 00:31, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• delete no quantified notability.
• Keep. Seems notable. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 18:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - The Elite Gorup is one of the major business groups at Thrissur, and therefore certainly notable. However, K.S. Chathunny doesnt deserve an article for himself. A mention in Elite Mission Hospital would do, IMO. -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}14:26, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The fact that he was a top business tycoon is unsubstantiated, and unless backed by reliable sources, is not trust-worthy. Other things mentioned in the article doesn't make him notable. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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.