Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Girimane Shyamarao

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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 07:52, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Not enough coverage in independent, reliable sources to verify or sustian article. Fails Wikipedia's General Notability Guidelines and WP:NAUTHOR. Most citations are to his own web site. There is one passing mention in the Deccan Herald. Jbh^Talk 13:19, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• Keep On Independent and Reliable Sources: While there are references to subject's website, it can be noted that there are many of his published materials referred in the website, which are not available in Internet. The Author writes in a regional language and there are regular references to the author in Kannada newspapers. He has written multiple books, and some of them are published by the most reputed publishers in Kannada.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Maheshbhat87 (talk • contribs) 06:47, 26 September 2015 (UTC) — Maheshbhat87 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

@Maheshbhat87: It would be very helpful if you could provide some of those reliable sources either here or on the articles talk page. I am more than willing to withdraw my deletion nomination if some good sources can be identified. Cheers. Jbh^Talk 12:19, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Reliable Sources:

1. The piece of work itself - Books sold in e-commerce sites ^{[1] [2]} Just books clc is an e-library ^[3] Navakarnataka is a leading publisher in Kannada ^[4] Sapna Book House is another leading publisher in Kannada ^[5]

2. Reference to Author's columns/novels/articles published in many newspapers/ magazines. These are scanned copies from many published materials. While they are sourced from the subjects website, materials published in regional magazines and newspapers can only be scanned and uploaded. ^[6]

3. Archive of 50th episode of his column 'Namma Makkalu, Aata, Patha, Odanata' in Prajavani (Deccan Herald Group). There have been 49 episodes before this ^[7]

4. Archive of another column 'Maatu Hegiddare Chenna?' in Prajavani. ^[8] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maheshbhat87 (talk • contribs) 06:03, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources and our notability guidelines for authors. As near as I can tell none of those links contribute to notability and most, if not all, are not reliable sources. There seem to be a couple links to the same editorial while the rest are links to booksellers like Amazon, Flipcart, Justbooks and some I can not identify but seem to be places to buy books. The type of sources required must be independent, third party reliable sources providing significant coverage of the subject of the article. (Please note I have changed your second !vote to "Comment" per AfD policy. Also please remember to sign your comments with ~~~~. Thank you.) Jbh^Talk 12:23, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• 'Delete unless reviews or other coverage of this author in reliable secondary sources can be shown. ABF99 (talk) 02:35, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - The search engines returned virtually zero results. No independent references to show notability. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 23:58, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for lack of sources that would support notability. We have nothing to show that there are reviews in any language. LaMona (talk) 00:18, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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