Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ram Narayan Mishra

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The result was delete. —SpacemanSpiff 07:53, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ram Narayan Mishra

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A small landowner who had a farm of 1000 trees and who was the benefactor of a local temple. The only chance of notability is the claim that he was also a Sanskrit scholar, but I haven't even been able to verify that. The first few pages of a google search in English seem to all be about other Ram Narayan Mishras. Trying in Hindi gets three pages of results revealing only the writer of a travelogue. No results for the one spelling variant I tried [1]. Pinging Tseung Kwan O who might be able to help find sources. Uanfala (talk) 22:04, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hinduism-related deletion discussions. Uanfala (talk) 22:06, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Uanfala (talk) 22:06, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As I have said, this person does in fact exist, however, there are a huge amount of factual inaccuracies in this Wiki page that require revision, and also unreliable sourcing as per WP:BLPPROD requirements. You may still nominate a PROD for this article on these grounds, as I have only deprodded it on the basis that this person may exist, and that this Wiki page only misrepresents this person (additional revision required), without fulfilling PROD requirements. Thank you! Tseung Kwan O (talk) 22:19, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this verifies the existence of a Ram Narayan Mishra from Fiji who became a policeman in the US. However, the person this article is about is a Sanskrit scholar from India. There are quite a few people out there with this name and I think the closest match I can find is a person who was involved in the Nagari Pracharini Sabha [2], but he lived at the end of the 19 c. and the current article reads like it's about someone who's a bit more contemporary. Uanfala (talk) 22:50, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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So there does exist a Sanskrit scholar who's published books in the 90s [3], who is (or used to be) a reader at Ganganath Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapith, llahabad,[4] although he isn't mentioned on the institution's website [5]. Now, is he the same person as the one the article is about? The article doesn't give us enough to verify. There might be a case for completely rewriting it but the crucial question then is whether that other Ramnarayan Mishra is notable enough, and I'm not sure I see how he meets the requirements at WP:NPROF. Uanfala (talk) 14:45, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Uanfala (talk) 15:16, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Notability not proven by any sources. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:48, 10 July 2016 (UTC).[reply]
Delete as there are claims of significance but nothing actually substantial (especially sources) following them. SwisterTwister talk 22:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete completely uncited BLP. — Music1201 ^talk 21:30, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Absolutely not notable and not article worthy. Not even a single reference provided or even a claim put forward for establish notability. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 04:57, 14 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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