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The result was keep. Withrawn by nominator - suggest an editor attempts to expand/improve the article (non-admin closure) Flewis^(talk) 22:55, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Baleshwar Rai (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Former chairman of the New Delhi Municipal Committee - a non-notable organization and chief secretary of Goa - a non-notable position (incidentally with no article or significance). Context is vague:

• "1970-batch UT cadre IAS officer"^{[clarification needed]}"
• "He had held^[when?] different administrative posts at different points^[where?] of time^{[citation needed]}"

The sole reference states that he lodged a semi-notable complaint to the Indian government - a WP:BLP1E violation, if the all his other accomplishments are found to be un-notable. -Flewis^(talk) 12:26, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep Very encyclopedic and sourced (I will fix the formatting momentarilty) to a Times of India story. Notable figure has held office in India. ChildofMidnight (talk) 17:50, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: – Egregious reasons given. The nomination is a classic case of systemic bias. I'll counteract the reasons one by one:

1. The New Delhi Municipal Committee is by no means non-notable: See Delhi#Geography and climate. It's the civic organization of New Delhi very much like the Bombay Municipal Corporation. An article needs to be written, but a red link does not imply non-notability.
2. A chief secretary is the highest administrative position possible in a state for a career bureaucrat. See Indian order of precedence to determine the status of a chief secretary. He's two positions below a Member of Parliament.
3. He was also the CEO of the Delhi Jal Board Ref, Presumably the first CEO from the reference July 1998.
4. As an Additional Secretary Ref, he also finds a place in the Indian order of precedence
5. Ample Third party independent sources on the subject available for more than one event.
6. The above two positions and the WP:RS coverage of Rai automatically disqualify WP:IE criteria and as the chairman of the New Delhi Municipal corporation, he automatically qualifies under WP:POLITICIAN.
7. ((articleissues)) is sufficient instead of deletion.

=Nichalp «Talk»= 19:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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