Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siddharth Balachandran

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The result was delete. Sandstein 12:43, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Siddharth Balachandran

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Fails WP:GNG. No claim of notability. Appears to be promotional and has unverified claims. Article was previously deleted on A7. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 13:44, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:47, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep He appears to meet WP:BASIC. He is an indian-born tycoon and a key player in UAE's business sector, Albawaba business news, Khaleej Times. The article needs improvement but is not a ground for deletion. Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 23:37, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for now as although Wikicology's sources are appreciable, my searches also found some at Books, News and Highbeam but they're all basically not significant and trivial therefore not much for a better article. Draft and userfy if needed though until this becomes better. Notifying taggers Xanthomelanoussprog and Norvoid. SwisterTwister talk 05:24, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral The article doesn't mention (unless I missed it) that he's also an Executive Director of SB Global Educational Resources, which trains pilots and teachers in Kerala. He worked at Dunn and Bradstreet, acquired a builder's merchants and started supplying sites in Dubai at the height of a building boom, the merchants have become part of a larger group and he's remained as MD of the builders- at the same time he's involved in a training company in India. I suspect a lot of puffery… Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 09:18, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and improve - the Gulf News profile is from a high circulation daily, and the fridaymagazine.ae reference is also published by Gulf News, so he just about squeaks by on "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources", and we'll likely find more. I do keep finding more bits of the article that are clearly pasted from different press releases though: if there are no WP:RS for those large, unreferenced sections by, say, a week from now, they should be removed. Reviewing editors might also be interested in the AFD for his company, WP:Articles for deletion/Buimerc Corporation. Norvoid (talk) 09:22, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. neither he nor his company are notable. It can be difficult to judge the typical NE and SAsian conglomerates, and the only factor I trust is overall size: there are many much larger than his. I am not prepared to go very far in accepting the reliability for purposes of establishing notability in any source in that region--it's even more PR dominated than the US. Furthermore, the technique of writing about both a borderline notable firm and its borderline notable executive is promotional, and to be strongly discouraged. When they are both written by the same spa, I assume a conflict of interest, and a very likely violation of our <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use> (and generally <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/FAQ_on_paid_contributions_without_disclosure>) The best course is such cases is to remove them until a npov editor appears. DGG ( talk ) 08:25, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:36, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —UY Scuti ^Talk 18:17, 8 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete basically I agree with DGG. The type of sources listed here woulld fail at WP:CORP. Lists, PR repeats and directories are fine for garnering basic information but go nowhere towards notability. Citing the May 2, 2013 article in Gulf News by Zenifer Khaleel is appropriate, although a bit interviewy, but is not sufficient. --Bejnar (talk) 20:35, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Not enough to show WP:GNG. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:49, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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