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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:58, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Kaarthik Shankar[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG, non notable and lacks significant coverage in reliable independent sources. Zoodino (talk) 16:50, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Zoodino (talk) 16:50, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Zoodino (talk) 16:50, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment:The page creator (Padmajanashok) removed the afd template from the article and blanked the discussion page. They may be having some significant personal incentive in the article or the article's subject. Zoodino (talk) 10:31, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: I dont have any personel incentiv about this person. I just create this article for public audiences who believes wikipedia is a trusted source. And am adding trusted refrences. Zoodino do you have any personal issues with Kaarthik Shankar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Padmajanashok (talk • contribs)

• Delete. Non-notable subject. --Gpkp [u • t • c] 14:27, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep : This person is a popular youtuber in Kerala. Moreover there are enough and more featured articles about him in many leading dailies. I have checked and found few more articles and will be adding as well. Definetly not WP:GNG — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jehowahyereh (talk • contribs) Jehowahyereh (talk) 15:07, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep : I removed some external links like youtube, instagram from the article page... now i think encyclopedia content only about him... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Padmajanashok (talk • contribs) 04:15, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment : you have done terrible eding in the page ! you cannot remove afd tags until the discussion is over. Jehowahyereh (talk) 09:29, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - non-notable YouTuber Spiderone 13:17, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete since subject fails WP:GNG. Arbitrary claims without substantiation that our subject "is notable" won't do. This is a moving effort to assert worthiness but it ultimately proves fruitless, e.g. this report in Mathrubhumi is supposed to impress but it's actually about a covid fund-raising effort and our subject is name dropped. WP:YTN has this to say: A frequent argument put forward for keeping an article is that a subject is notable because of their number of YouTube subscribers or the number of times their videos have been viewed. Consensus however is that this is an insufficient basis by which to establish notability. -The Gnome (talk) 11:04, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. This may be a case of WP: Too soon.TamilMirchi (talk) 23:14, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The coverage isn't significant. The Hindu article just has a para about him. Other sources are also trivial coverage. - hako9 (talk) 01:09, 11 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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