Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gopal Rai

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. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:07, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gopal Rai

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. An electorally unsuccessful politician. This is one of a series of articles seemingly created by Aam Aadmi Party-centric contributors in the run-up to the 2014 Indian elections, of which similar ones such as Subhash Ware have already been deleted via AfD. Wikipedia should not be the place to promote election candidates and minor party functionaries. Sitush (talk) 08:28, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:08, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:08, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, → Call me Hahc21 06:13, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:14, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:OUTCOMES. We have almost always deleted articles about unsuccessful North American political candidates; we should do the same for South Asian candidates in similar circumstances. Bearian (talk) 20:30, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Member of National Executive and high profile leader in the political party. Min2winit (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:53, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The national executive of the AAP is a large, unelected body of cronies with no real influence because of the AAP's grassroots/localist agenda. Thus, membership has counted for nothing in the recent deletion debate for, say, Subhash Ware. As for "high profile", well, you'll see that said on about 80 per cent of all our articles about Indian politicians - it is a vacuous phrase, often seen together with other vague terms such as "senior leader". - Sitush (talk) 18:42, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Does not pass notability requirements for politicians. Thrub (talk) 04:20, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep - Meets WP:GNG as per [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Besides, a simple web search will provide some other significant sources too.

As for WP:POLITICIAN, Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage does constitute notability. He's a member of Political Affairs Committee of a major Indian political party [6] & [7].

I'll try to improve refs in the article though. Harsh (talk) 07:15, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep - Meets WP:GNG and WP:POLITICIAN. Also agree with above Keep Points. I hope User:Harsh_2580 will be able to improve the article further. --DBig Xray 23:45, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I have provided following refs and added some content - IndiaTV, FirstPost, YahooNews, DNA, MSN News. I hope this is more than enough to have this article saved. Harsh (talk) 15:43, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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.