Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sudhir M. Parikh

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 keep. I didn't realize the old revision was pretty decent. I support keeping with the revert, so I'll go ahead and close this. (non-admin closure) IagoQnsi (talk) 06:18, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sudhir M. Parikh

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As it stands, this article is just a giant promotional piece/advertisement/resume for Sudhir M. Parikh. At the very least, it should be deleted if no one is willing to completely rewrite. That said, I also question whether Parikh meets the notability standards. His main claims to fame are his awards: Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, and Padma Shri. These all seem to be relatively minor awards, not worthy of notability on their own. The Ellis Island Medal of Honor is given to ~100 people per year and seems to be only marginally notable. The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman doesn't seem to have much significant coverage and doesn't seem very notable. The Padma Shri is the 4th highest Indian civilian award; I can't find a policy for non-military government awards, but for military awards, the policy is that only the 1st highest award is good enough to merit notability. Besides the awards, most coverage of Parikh seems to be press release-type articles or trivial mentions. IagoQnsi (talk) 22:45, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The article is a mess, I admit. However, notability is clearly established by the award , Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian awards. Not all government awards can be compared, but considering the fact that only 2840 people from a population of 1.3 billion have been awarded Padma Shri since its inception in 1954, makes it a major award. Suggest we wait for other's comments, too and if agreed, will revert the article to this level. --jojo@nthony (talk) 05:43, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Agree with jojo@nthony. Award of PadmaSri will pass WP:GNG. The edits on the article by RamasamyIndia which is a SPA completely messed up a fairly well written page with blatant advertizing. Should be reverted to the version as suggested. Hagennos (talk) 04:18, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep With the present revert, the article is keepable and meets notability as well as NPOV criteria.--jojo@nthony (talk) 06:27, 26 January 2018 (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.