Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Bihar

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Dynasties of Ahirs

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This article is a WP:COATRACK of loosely connected dynasties, many of which lack reliable scholarly consensus linking them to the Ahir community. The references often fail WP:RS & some are misused to support fringe or WP:UNDUE historical claims...also fails WP:V, and WP:SYNTH. Chronos.Zx (talk) 15:32, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Nepal, India, Bihar, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. Chronos.Zx (talk) 15:32, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nirmal Mahato

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Non-notable politician, fails Wp:NPOL. No wp:SIGCOV is found except few news articles revolving around his murder case. His murder case could pass the notability as an event but not this biography. Zuck28 (talk) 17:09, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Bunty Singh

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All the sources are about his death. SIGCOV: Not Found, Fails NACTOR, GNG and ANYBIO. Zuck28 (talk) 16:47, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep the coverage appears to be occasioned by his death, assessing the career of someone prominent who has died, not about his death, as would be the case if someone was murdered or died in an unusual way. This kind of editorial obituary coverage actually establishes notability under GNG. Jahaza (talk) 18:50, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Career includes non-notable projects, that too without proper citations. Fails Wp:NACTOR. Zuck28 (talk) 18:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sudhaker Upadhyay

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Early stage academic whose page was deleted in 2017. Page was recently recreated, failed at AfC so editor moved it to main claiming that he passes WP:NPROF. While his citations have improved, at most he is an asst_prof (perhaps an independent researcher) in a fairly high citation area. No awards, no coverage, still some years away from a pass of WP:NPROF. Ldm1954 (talk) 17:15, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:24, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This is a high-enough citation area that I don't think two barely-triple-digit citation counts are enough for WP:PROF#C1 and there seems to be nothing else. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:18, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Can't see anything here that would clearly meet NACADEMIC, and the sources are obviously nowhere near enough satisfying GNG. (If someone does come up with evidence to support either, pls ping me and I'll take another look.) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 18:53, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The citation count is nowhere near high enough to justify inclusion for someone who is still a junior academic and without a significant award. I also don't think his research activity so far is particularly impressive even among early career researchers in his field e.g. compare to the profile of this academic, who got her PhD around the same time as the article subject, but has over four times as many total citations and a h-index of 66. Leonstojka (talk) 22:01, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it makes much sense to compare citations and h-index between researchers in quantum gravity and in galaxy formation. The authorship and citation patterns are too different. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:34, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:02, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. For the same reason I declined the draft, fails WP:NACADEMIC. RangersRus (talk) 18:51, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kunal Majumder

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Doesn't appear to pass WP:JOURNALIST; coverage in article is passing mentions. See WP:COI and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ThePerfectYellow; I believe several major contributors to this article were paid to edit this article. grapesurgeon (seefooddiet) (talk) 00:16, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Journalism, News media, and India. grapesurgeon (seefooddiet) (talk) 00:16, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bihar, Delhi, and Jharkhand. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 04:23, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:40, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Previously deleted by WP:PROD, ineligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 03:37, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]