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The result was delete. Tone 07:43, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vivekanand Palavali (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Advertorialized WP:BLP of a surgeon, author and filmmaker, not referenced to any hint of reliable source media coverage to verify that he has a credible notability claim at all. The attempted notability claims here are that he won an internal staff award from his own employer and that he's made films that have won unspecified film awards, but there's not a single reference supporting any of those claims -- there's just a bunch of his own self-publised primary sources getting linkfarmed under external links, which is not evidence of notability. Merely saying that somebody won just any random award that exists is not a free pass over WP:ANYBIO — some awards count as notability claims and some awards do not, so making a person notable for awards requires both (a) naming the award, and (b) supporting the claim with a reliable media source to demonstrate that the award itself is significant enough to make its winners notable for winning it. And otherwise, this is written more like somebody tried to convert his résumé into prose than like a proper encyclopedia article. Bearcat (talk) 16:29, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:29, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:29, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:29, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - it's almost impossible to source even a stub. There has been only a single local online article about him, zero newspaper articles, only two scholar articles, and nothing on JSTOR. For those reasons, he specifically fails the scholar test. I note that we almost always delete articles about producersl this doctor is not really a director as our readers would think - he self-produced a documentary. Bearian (talk) 01:21, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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