Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Rajeswaran

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The result was delete. The sock !vote has been discarded. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:01, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Rajeswaran

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Some notability exists, but on the edge. Arthistorian1977 (talk) 07:19, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, WP:TOOSOON. He's made a great start to his career from a difficult beginning as a refugee, but I don't see significant coverage online from WP:RS on him or his startup, just passing mentions. Uncle Roy (talk) 07:34, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Clarifying my vote to "delete" in view of the special-pleading sockpuppet nonsense. He's probably not notable anyway, and if there's going to be nonsense, it's certainly not worth it. The rest of earlier analysis, below, stands. Herostratus (talk) 20:03, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

He looks to be an inspiring story, but... well let's see. Article says "He received the FSB and Worldpay young entrepreneur of the year award", but the source says GoCode Academy won it. Which GoCode Academy is his baby, plus how can an academy win "entrepreneur of the year", but that's what it says. Anyway its a local source without in-depth coverage of him, just PR-style speechifying.

Second source is an in-depth article, although it's in a fairly obscure venue, Tamil Culture website. But it is written by Rajeswaran. So it's not useful for establishing notabily, and is a sketchy source.

The third source is The Guardian. Notable! But it's not in-depth. It says "Robert Rajeswaran, chief executive of coding bootcamp GoCode, was forced to leave Jaffna, Sri Lanka with his family when he was a child. It took around two years of his family living as refugees before they were granted asylum in the UK. He says the whole experience of being a refugee gave him the hunger to make his business work. “There was standoffish behaviour towards refugees and immigrants in parts of society [...] This gave me a drive to succeed and prove that a refugee too can make it in this country through sheer hard work and perseverance.”". It's not in-depth but it's more than just a passing mention. It's something to build on.

But that's it for the article's sources. So to Google. Short mention at something called Entrepreneurial Spark. One-sentence quote in the local paper. Doesn't seem to be much else.

"Rajeswaran is a guest speaker at schools, colleges and universities across the UK" seems to have no source. The Guardian bit laid out above is describes with "He was featured on The Guardian..." which is maybe a bit of an overstatement, "featured". So there's some self-promotion going on here. And, it's a WP:BLP so... we want to be cautious. A fair amount of the material is not sourced. It's all positive or neutral, so its not an immediate pressing problem though.

So... does the Guardian few sentences, plus all the other stuff added together, add to meeting WP:GNG? Mnmnh... maybe not. He's on the bubble but sliding off IMO maybe. Herostratus (talk) 07:52, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 11:28, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did a bit of research.

Here are all the articles MK Citizen Article 1 http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/coding-contest-tested-top-tech-student-during-visit-to-oxford-1-7898825 MK Citizen Article 2 https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2525409/MK%20Citizen%2026th%20January%202017%20(3).pdf http://www.entrepreneurial-spark.com/entrepreneurial-spark-launches-in-milton-keynes/ http://www.entrepreneurial-spark.com/10000-to-be-awarded-to-milton-keynes-entrepreneurs/ http://bridgingandcommercial.co.uk/article-desc-5544_platform-bla http://www.banklesstimes.com/2016/01/21/uk-alt-fi-platform-black-announces-three-hires/ http://blog.bpp.com/careers/workplace-mentoring-scheme-london-city-campus/ http://tamildiplomat.com/london-tamil-market-2017-ends-high-note/ Blog he wrote with images of him in schools

Robert Rajeswaran's https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-rajeswaran-bb909b49/?ppe=1

MKFM Radio interview http://www.mkfm.com/on-air/podcasts/the-mid-morning-show/?view=2017-04

Secklow Sounds Radio interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_LAi5H858

He raised funds for youth charity YMCA Help our Homeless Young People | Localgiving — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnparsonshmk (talk • contribs) 13:50, 8 May 2017 (UTC) — Johnparsonshmk (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Delete This started off as a blatantly self promotional autobio, as noted above this is skirting WP:TOOSOON in terms of WP:GNG, and the editor adding sources above is a brand new account that only came in to existence after Robertrajeswaran was cautioned about editing his own articles. I hear a quacking sound. JamesG5 (talk) 16:35, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note SPA has confirmed my suspicions, both accounts have been blocked. So in addition to notability issues there's the question of is another editor willing to take this in hand and do the fixes needed assuming it's kept. JamesG5 (talk) 20:06, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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