Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunil Ganguly

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The result was keep. --Wafulz 20:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sunil Ganguly

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Indian musician who fails WP:BIO for lack of depth in published sources. Tagged for notability since Nov. No response to request in Feb on Notice board for India-related topics. There's no reason to keep him. Is there? Mereda 17:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete: and redirect name to Sunil Gangopadhyay (the poet). The musician is non-notable. --Ragib 17:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Fails WP:MUSIC and WP:RS Weak Keep. It seems that he released five albumns on HMV, which consisted of instrumental versions of popular Bollywood songs. The guy passes WP:MUSIC because he has >2 albums with a notable record company. His name is listed among the notable musicians on some sites[1][2]. I could find his mention among notable musicians on some forums, blogs and mailing list (eg.[3][4] etc.). Although the reliable sources are very few[5], and I'm not fully convinced about notability, I'd give a benefit of doubt here. utcursch | talk 13:28, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. - KNM Talk 02:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and expand. Notable enough [6]. John Vandenberg 12:04, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Noted in The Tribune and expand[7].Bakaman 19:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Comment John Vandenberg's find is a good 200-word review. I'd guess it's unlikely anything new is going to be written (died 1999, according to Bakaman's source) and there's still not much depth in reliable secondary sources to add to the primary facts of his records. It's closer though. Mereda 07:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Delete and redirect per Raqib. Hornplease 15:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  • keep per utcursch - benefit of doubt being, I don't know if you'll find many latin-alphabet sources writing about a Bengali musician. The sources given above do assert his notability. My opinion is also based on a concern that reliance on latin-alphabet sources for non-European topics (maybe because of lack of Bengali english-language contributors here?) could create a Western bias in en.wikipedia. Can we prove that he's not notable on his home turf? AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 00:12, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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