Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:30, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award

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This appears to be a non-notable award given by a non-notable organisation. Aside from obvious press releases at the time of the awards, seemingly usually in local news media, there doesn't seem to be much to support it or indeed the (unlinked) organisation. Sitush (talk) 12:42, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. MarginalCost (talk) 22:27, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, the article is the target of a vast paid editing ring, most likely related to this, and most recently they've even indulged in faking references. The article was originally created to promote this subject, and as I mentioned there, any coverage is incidental as the name is notable and these people seem to capitalize on the confusion. 50 to 60 plaques awarded a year. —SpacemanSpiff 22:50, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and Salt the article and Block the involved editors---UPE Spam.I will repeat my PROD-rationale--Non-notable award by a non-notable body.Hardly covered nationally, other than in local news.Further, mentions in resumes aren't an indicator of notability of award, (esp. given that the notability of the recipients is itself doubtful) and coverage in unadulterated PR stuff fails to instill any confidence, either.~ Winged Blades^Godric 05:23, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete non-notable award which sounds more like a PR exercise. FITINDIA 19:21, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This award is a notable government award and is awarded by the Government of India to outstanding persons for their outstanding achievements. No government award requires promotion or any other thing like that and this award cannot be achieved by anyone until and unless he has done something extremely outstandingly new or trending in his field. That's why a very few notable persons are given this award every year which I cited on the article's page but it was removed idk why, but those citations can still be found in the article's history. Huge media coverage is also available to support the awards notability but some people refuse to accept it even though they know that it is completely acceptable. Some people are confused that this award is given by private organisations but they are highly mistaken. ONLY and ONLY the GOVERNMENT OF INDIA gives this award. It is a government award and the government of India gives this award by itself and notable things by government don't require any promotion, they only require that people should have proper knowledge about it. Hence I think that this article should stay on the free encyclopaedia. It does not matter that what anyone says about this award but that doesn't change its notability. Sincerely —N1197L (talk) 17:12, 9 April 2018 (UTC) — N1197L (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
Keep because the‘Indira Gandhi Priydarshini Award’ is mentioned in government scheme at serial No.-20 in ‘Awards.’ section of this link http://www.deccanherald.com/content/12096/government-schemes-projects-named-nehru.html while ‘Indira Gandhi Prize for National Integration’ is at serial number 19. Given that it proves that this award is being conferred by notable government body. I believe that this subject passes Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) John Carter Lambert (talk) 17:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)— John Carter Lambert (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Note to closer: being mentioned in a government scheme, or even being a government scheme, is not itself anything of relevance to GNG. WP:NOTINHERITED, for starters. John Carter Lambert appears to be an SPA and the claim is dubious: yes, it is mentioned in an ambiguously-titled report from the Deccan Herald that is just a list of things named after the Nehru-Gandhi family but there has been no evidence that the government recognises it other than that particular list in a (not massively reliable) newspaper. Our article claims the awarding body is the All India National Unity Conference, about which no information can be found other than as an awarder. - Sitush (talk) 17:50, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Non-notable award invented and conferred by non-notable organization. It is NOT conferred by the Indian Government. The coopting of Indira Gandhi's name is pretty blatant. And this wiki article seems to be an effort to confer notability on some dubious wiki article subjects. Softlavender (talk) 21:30, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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