Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rajendra Shende

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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 21:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rajendra Shende

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1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, & 6th sources are his orgs [1] [2] (second one is just homepage) [3] [4] [5], 3rd he is just quoted [6], 7th is a PDF of a powerpoint [7], 8 & 9 are some reports he edited [8] [9], 10th is an award which does not mention him (and is mis-atributed in the article to the US EPA instead of UN) [10], the 11th is about an EPA award that is only mentioned by a WP:NEWSORGINDIA [11], 12 is a link to a newspaper archive page [12], 13 is a conflict of interest form PDF? [13], 14 is a broken link, 15 is a duplicate of 11, 16 is a release by his university [14], 17 he is quoted in just one sentence [15], 18 is a link to the Wikipedia article on the Montreal Protocol, 19 & 20 are links to his website, 21 simply states he was at an event [16], and 22 is a dead link. 🄻 🄰 15:14, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science, Biology, and India. 🄻 🄰 15:14, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 15:50, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as nominated. Only two sources give WP:SIGCOV and one of the two came from an organisation where he worked so that can't really be considered as WP:RS. Mekomo (talk) 16:14, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. A director of the UNEP would probably be notable, but I don't see evidence supporting that claim. Vanamonde93 (talk) 18:52, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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