Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/P. V. Srinijan

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:18, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

P. V. Srinijan

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Biography of a person who does not appear to meet WP:GNG ; as a politician, WP:POLITICIAN is not met and they appear to be known mainly for one event (WP:BLP1E) - according to the article there was "media attention" around the event (which apparently involved some kind of minor tax evasion) but I can only find a few brief notices in the press. Perhaps the newspaper articles have expired from their articles as this was six years ago. Attempts have been made to change the article into a promotion piece, and also to create a new article about him, but no new sources have been forthcoming. bonadea contributions talk 12:59, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment to nomination: I have (mostly) restored an older version which had more references, but I still think WP:BLP1E applies here. A couple of the references are more about his father-in-law than about the subject of the article himself. --bonadea contributions talk 15:22, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 16:49, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 16:49, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - per WP:BLP1E. Non-notable low profile individual. Vipinhari || talk 17:41, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:BLP1E. The only substantive claims of notability here are that he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to a notable office and that he was involved with the youth wing of his political party — but neither of those are things that get a person into Wikipedia in and of themselves. Which means the tax evasion charges are the only thing left — but per WP:PERP, an otherwise low-profile person who was not already notable enough for an article does not get over the bar on the basis of criminal charges, and the article is not claiming or sourcing that he was convicted of the charges. (And even if he actually was convicted and the article just forgot to mention that, tax evasion is an all-too-common low-level crime for which we can't feasibly maintain an article about every single tax evader who ever evaded a tax — so that still wouldn't really get him over the bar, as the crime itself isn't a noteworthy one.) Accordingly, nothing here grants him enough notability to be a suitable article topic, and the volume of sourcing is not compelling enough to claim WP:GNG. Bearcat (talk) 17:37, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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