Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anadish Pal

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. - Mailer Diablo 17:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anadish Pal

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Non-notable inventor. Fails to meet the notability criteria guideline (WP:BIO). Only one external, reliable source is cited. [1] This person has not been a primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person. Obtaining two or three US patents is not a sufficient sign of notability. Tens of thousands of patents are granted each year by the USPTO (see statistics [2]). Note that I have edited the article for removing POV. You may wish to have a look at the article's history as well (possible vanity or conflict of interest). [3] Edcolins 21:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Found a Hindi newspaper and [4] source from another website, seems a front page story. This newspaper is India's largest circulated newspaper: Cottonmother, 27 January 2007, 1:05 (IST)

Sonia has kindly let me have a scan of her Image:TOIstory.jpg in the Times of India 11 Sept. 2006, Page 5 of the New Delhi edition: Cottonmother

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions. --   ⇒ bsnowball  08:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
• Keep as a perfectly reasonable application of the clause in WP:BIO which states that "just because someone doesn't fall into one of these categories doesn't mean an article on the person should automatically be deleted." Holding a number of patents and the rather sizable source seems to be enough to start out with. --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
• very weak keepPatents can be significant, or otherwise. The vast majority are never further developed or put to practical use. But they are documentation that he is at least inventing things of various sorts. What would really help is a review of his poetry--in any language. Can his supporters find one?--it may not be on the web. DGG 19:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

• Keep As user DGG conjectured, there is one review in a journal of his poetry. Here is a google search link to the journal entry [5] "The Journal of Commonwealth Literature". But it is not a free subscription journal, so it cannot be accessed freely by everybody.Mandot 05:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Keep now Just checked his third patent status -- it is granted today. I'll strongly vote for 'keep', because it could be a rapidly growing article, indeed: Cottonmother 18:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

• Keep as per clause "just because someone doesn't fall into one of these categories doesn't mean an article on the person should automatically be deleted" --Boookabooo 10:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

• Strongest Keep Come on. Not many indians can do it. --SkyWalker 10:29, 2 February 2007 (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.