Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sanjay Rath

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 no consensus. NSLE _(T+C) at 04:35 UTC (2006-05-25)

[edit] Sanjay Rath

Indian astrologer who falls just short of WP:BIO standards. According to the article, he has published 6 books, but Google searches for "Crux of Vedic Astrology" [1] and "Vedic Remedies in Astrology" [2] turn up 101 and 76 hits respectively, which suggest that his books might not be that popular and fall short of the audience of 5,000 needed for him to be considered notable. Weak delete. Kimchi.sg 02:20, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep. Leaning to delete. This is a real person, and can be edited so it will follow WP:BIO. Funnybunny (^talk/_{Counter Vandalism Unit}) 02:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep based on having published six books, which seems notable enough of an achievement. Will recondsider vote if it can be shown the books are fake, published by a vanity press, etc. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 03:08, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, books published by Ratna Sagar, an award winnning, non-vanity Indian press. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 03:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, asserts notability. --Terence Ong 04:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep.A notable bio.Bharatveer 06:18, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Barely notable, but appears to squeeze through policy for authors. Rockpocket (talk) 08:15, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I have edited the article for unreferenced POV. Tyrenius 15:14, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, marginally notable; the cleanup by Mr. Tyrenius really helps the article not come off as promotional. Good nomination, though. Kuru ^talk 16:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Notable bio. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 19:01, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete, doesn't seem all that notable for me, given the Google results. Lankiveil 23:27, 20 May 2006 (UTC).
  • Serious question: what's your expectation for Google results for an Indian author of nonfiction? --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 23:51, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Delete as per Lankiveil. Since English is very widely spoken and written in India, and is the second official language after Hindi, the expectation should be quite high. Bwithh 03:38, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Notability issues. Anwar 04:37, 24 May 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.