Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Umakant Sharma (2nd nomination)

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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 redirect to Cheating in chess#Historical. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 04:20, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This is clearly WP:1EVENT. While the incident is clearly notable, the person is not. I propose redirecting it to Cheating in chess. The section there covers this incident near verbatim and also provides a much better historical context of cheating in chess and other similar high profile incidents. This article was nominated for AfD in 2007 just a few days after its creation. While there was no consensus, a lot of editors felt the need to delete or merge it. Cheating in chess was essentially created in response to this AfD and this incident. While the article then just basically covered this incident and was a stub, now it has much better content due to other high profile incidents since then. One can also note that nearly all other people with wikilink in that article are notable in their own right: normally by being current or former Grandmasters, while Umakant Sharma never held any title nor is currently even rated. Roller26 (talk) 03:11, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. Roller26 (talk) 03:11, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:56, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.