Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paras Joshi

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 delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:00, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Paras Joshi

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Highly promotional article, with phrases like "Called 'Paolini of the East by those who know him". Don't believe that he meets WP:NAUTHOR. Yes, he wrote a book at the age of 16 but these days thats not a significant new concept (NAUTHOR #2). I would also contend that if this is all he is notable for it could be a case of BLP1E. A number of the sources are not WP:RS, including an interview. Gbawden (talk) 11:57, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Almost all the promotional material has been removed to make it more in conformity with Wikipedia's guidelines. References to substantiate the content of the article are also given and I believe interviews are relevant citations. If there's still some drawback, it should be pointed out. Would be taken care of duly. Already, it has been edited to a great extent. Onlinewarrior425 (talk) 12:23, 2 October 2015 (UTC)OnlineWarrior425[reply]

• Onlinewarrior425, do you have more sources along the lines of the article from the Hindustan Times? That one is usable as a notability giving source, but the one from the author's literary agency cannot. It's a WP:PRIMARY source, which cannot show notability. The MeriNews source cannot show notability since it looks to be a self-published source, as the site identifies the author as a "citizen journalist". Per the site, it looks like citizen journalists can report on anything and these reports are not edited, which means that they do not undergo the type of editorial control that Wikipedia requires from its sources. Now I do need to point out that coverage does not have to be in English so if Joshi has received coverage in Hindi (in a place that Wikipedia would consider reliable) then that could possibly show notability for him and his work. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:55, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm including all the links I found that might be relevant to the issue at hand. I cannot comment on the reliability because I don't have much experience with reviewing articles, but it might turn out to be helpful. If there's consensus on the reliability of the sources, I'd be grateful if one of the more experienced reviewer could fix the article.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/Classic-Mystery-Stories/2014/12/16/article2572865.ece

http://blog.internshala.com/2014/12/tips-book-published/

http://ipu.ac.in/connectuss/Issue%203/ussnovelist.html

http://www.b00kr3vi3ws.in/2015/01/Equilibrium.html?m=1

http://www.bbpsgr.edu.in/literary_club.html

http://readersclubdelhi.com/equilibrium-by-paras-joshi/

Notice should be brought to fact that 'paolini of the east' is also mentioned in HT Campus, a publication of Hindustan Times that specialises in events happening on school and university campuses in the major cities of India. I cannot include that link because the page has been blacklisted for i don't what reason and I'll add a request to whitelist the same, but the contents can located by running a normal search for 'Paras Joshi Equilibrium HT Campus' I hope this would rest all doubts with respect to the notability of the author and the book.

Rovingedit (talk) 10:56, 3 October 2015 (UTC)rovingedit[reply]

• Rovingedit There's this one more page http://plusminusnmore.rapo.in/f-pages/f-page-paras-joshi/ which carries his interview. Onlinewarrior425 (talk) 09:03, 4 October 2015 (UTC)OnlineWarrior425[reply]

• Draft and userfy for now as I found no better coverage aside from this so there's not much for a better article. SwisterTwister talk 07:01, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:42, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:42, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:42, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and Userfy (For Now) without malice, since the article does indeed have one strong citation and there's clearly been a good faith attempt to clean up the language to conform to NPOV. Unfortunately one piece of non-trivial coverage in a secondary source isn't enough, Wikipedia needs two. It looks like some work has gone into finding a second source, and I respect that work, but so far it's not there and this is lingering on. The subject is a young writer who appears to be very active, so I'm sure he'll someday get more coverage. ONCE THAT HAPPENS, this article can be re-created, but in the meantime it should be moved to the article creator's sandbox. -Markeer 22:56, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Fails WP:AUTHOR and appears to be promotional. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 04:54, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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