Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major Sudip Bose

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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 and rewrite. - Mailer Diablo 11:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major Sudip Bose

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Does not matter where he got a mention. All he was, was a MD in the Army like 1000s of others. This is also an ad for his business. I, nadav, created this afd entry for User:203.10.224.60, who placed the afd template on the page without creating the entry. nadav 02:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Neutral. He did apparently receive a lot of press recognition. But it seems he created the page, probably with the intention of getting publicity. nadav 02:04, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep but quickly rewrite. Waaaaaaaaaay too many media mentions (there are more than just those currently listed in the article) of this guy to claim he's non-notable. Whether he deserves to have been made more notable by the media than thousands of other army docs is irrelevent. The fact is that he has been made more notable than they. Like it or not. Now then, the criticism that the article, in its current form, is vanity/advertisement created by Bose himself is a valid and accurate one. But given that the subject is actually notable, the solution to siutation is not to delete the article (WP:AUTO discourages creating your own article, but doesn't absolutely forbid it); it is to rewrite it so that it no longer has those problems. Mwelch 02:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and rewrite. Seems to violate WP:COI, but can be improved. Sr13 (T|C) 03:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and rewrite, because the subject is notable. The argument that there are "1000s of others" can be used for anybody in any field, and that why it does matter "where he got a mention" and what the article(s) about him said, because that's how we judge N. DGG 03:21, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep I have a problem with the conflict of interest, but that is not cause for deletion. He may have created the page, but at least he can back up his claims with sources. That being said, this page needs a substantial rewrite to make it acceptable. There are POV problems (obviously) across the board. I'm only voting to keep because he does appear to be notable. --Cyrus Andiron 13:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Notable. Needs rewrite and/or inline citations.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:49, 20 April 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.