Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lavanya Vemsani

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 23:53, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Lavanya Vemsani

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WP:NACADEMIC is not met. Two monographs (one one-paragraph review for each - 1 & 2) and an edited volume (two reviews - 3 & 4). About 20 citations in 15 years of academics.

To be elected as the Vice President of "Ohio Academy of History" is not a notable act either and that she was elected as one, instills little confidence about the organization. Apart from this, she is involved with fringe Hindutva propaganda which might have earned her some media-coverage and passage of WP:GNG (c.f. Rajiv Malhotra) but sadly, that is not the case either.TrangaBellam (talk) 14:04, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Hinduism-related deletion discussions. TrangaBellam (talk) 14:04, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. TrangaBellam (talk) 14:04, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. TrangaBellam (talk) 14:04, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:30, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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@TrangaBellam: please be BLP careful with throwing fringe about. It appears she recently received a Fullbright award, the first ever for a Shawnee State University professor, so there is some recognition here. While certainly not a PROF-C1 pass, GNG is plausible given coverage such as this in the Deccan Chronicle.--Eostrix (^{🦉 hoot} _hoot🦉) 09:00, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I am sufficiently acquainted with Indian historiography and her work to make such determinations.
  Thousands of Fulbrights are given every year: they prove nothing. GNG is plausible but not possible, as of now. TrangaBellam (talk) 10:18, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
delete clearly fails WP:NPROF and WP:NAUTHOR with relatively little recognition or impact of her work. NPROF#8 would apply if the journal on which she is chief editor were a major journal in the field, but it clearly is not (actually it seems defunct, with only a single issue in 2018 and no further issues since). --hroest 09:25, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:54, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, fails WP:NPROF. Human interest sections on the Deccan Chronicle tend to suffer from a predominance of undisclosed paid news stories so I don't see her passing WP:BASIC either. Tayi Arajakate _Talk 11:08, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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