Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarita Shrestha

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 no consensus to delete. Sourcing may be poor, but delete arguments about the quality of the specialist sources do not seem sufficient to justify deletion. lifebaka++ 18:36, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sarita Shrestha

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• Queried speedy delete Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:31, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Message copied from my user talk page:

    * Hi Anthony, I wrote a page for Ayurvedic physician Dr "Sarita Shrestha" and it was speedy deleted. I had only started putting in the references and sources for notability and it was deleted a bot too quickly. I don't believe this falls into a case of promotion. I have started pages and edited for several world renowned Ayurvedic individuals, schools and organizations. I have added some sources and notability and request your reconsideration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Joshgreene/Sarita_Shrestha Thanks 05:05, 4 February 2011 User:Joshgreene

  • Message copied from Talk:Sarita Shrestha:

    Sarita Shrestha is regarded as one of the most important living figures in the field of Ayurvedic Medicine worldwide. She is the first Female Ayurvedic physician and the first Ayurvedic OB/GYN in that country. 22:28, 28 December 2010 User:Joshgreene

    • Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:35, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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• Keep. The article cites multiple edited sources, including substantial newspaper or magazine coverage in California and Chicago; both of those articles are about this subject, or interview her. She appears to meet WP:GNG and WP:BIO, and the article itself meets WP:BLP. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:20, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete being interviewed by the a local newspaper on a specialist subject does not equal notability. I have been interviewed in a local newspaper, I am not notable. MLA (talk) 22:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • By local newspaper are you referring to Metroactive? Does that mean you are glossing over the national magazines and colleges: Prevention Magazine, MSNBC Online, LA Yoga Magazine, Rocky Mountain Institute, Mount Madonna Institute and other mentioned.
    • Joshgreene (talk) 04:28, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Let me clear-up some confusion about sources. They seem to fall into 3 categories, none of which are acceptable WP:RS that demonstrate notability: (1) faculty pages like 7, 8, 10, and 11 – this type of material is nothing more than WP:EXISTENCE and has never counted toward notability, (2) web pages or local or narrow special-interest publications like 1, 3, 5, 6, and 9 – these are generally not considered to be authoritative nor to show general notability, and (3) the MSNBC source 2, which turns out to be just a few talking points, like Shrestha "helps women discover their prakuti, or 'true nature,' so she can design an appropriate daily and seasonal dietetic and behavioral regimen". This article is simply a collection of such talking points from several dozen alternative-medicine healers. The substance of ref 4 is not clear, but on balance, I would say the references given in the article are way short of what we conventionally expect for a BLP. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 16:44, 21 February 2011 (UTC).[reply]

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