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 delete. I must, however, object to an erroneous argument put forth by Andy: non-English sources are admitted on the English Wikipedia just like English sources, as long as they conform to WP:RS and other policies. It is only that English sources are preferred. Please see Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources in languages other than English. Kurykh 23:30, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kumar vishwas[edit]

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Contested prod. No evidence of notability - it's asserted but cannot be verified by any references.

It's claimed that the subject of this article is a major poet, has received a gold medal, has represented India and has written popular books and film scripts. There are no references to prove any of this. There's just a single line in a newspaper report about some kind of award - but what sort of award and why was it given? As far as the reference goes it could be for cookery.

The article originally had references in Hindi. Despite requests the author hasn't replaced them with English references. Right now all that can be confidently stated about Kumar Vishwas is that someone of that name once received an award for something. andy 15:43, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Unless substantial sources can be found. There are a lot of blogs and Youtube-like sites that feature him, but that seems to be the bulk of it at the moment.--Sethacus 16:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per Sethacus. Jakew 20:51, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Kumar Vishwas has his own site http://www.kumarvishwas.com/ and many videos are available at youtube. Kindly dont delete this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sameergoswami (talk • contribs) 12:49, August 16, 2007 (UTC)

• The site is in Hindi so it cannot count as an adequate reference for an English-language article. Also, if it's his own site then it's autobiographical and therefore fails the requirement that sources should be independent of the subject. andy 12:57, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:VERIFY and WP:BIO. -- Satori Son 15:27, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per above Harlowraman 23:12, 16 August 2007 (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.