Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C. V. Narayanan Nair

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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:32, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

C. V. Narayanan Nair

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Heavily advertorialized biography of a person whose notability claims are not reliably sourced. Four of the five footnotes here are primary sources that do not count as support for notability at all, and the one that is a reliable source just glancingly mentions his name a couple of times in the process of being primarily about other people. (It's a dead link, but it was recoverable via Wayback.) And while there are two books being listed as "further reading" without being used as footnotes for anything, it's also unclear whether those books actually contain enough content about him to count toward getting him over GNG, or also just mention his name in passing. The article would have to be referenced better, and written more neutrally and objectively, than this to consider him notable enough for inclusion -- and the lack of an interlang link to the Malayalam Wikipedia, when his potential notability claim is specific to a Malayalam-speaking area, also implies a shortage of genuine notability. Bearcat (talk) 15:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Nominator has already exhaustively given evidence for deletion. I do not think subject passes WP:GNG - this is an advertorialized stub. Skirts⁸⁹ 17:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Doesn't appear to meet any of the criteria at WP:MANOTE. More importantly, there's a lack of significant independent coverage of him. I did find a couple of mentions of him in books, but they were all one line mentions--often in a list of names. I found nothing to convince me that WP:GNG is met. Papaursa (talk) 00:34, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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