Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shiv Shankaran Nair

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The result was delete. Uncontested. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:44, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Shiv Shankaran Nair (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Incredible puff piece. This is the version I found and which seems to be more than sufficiently sourced. Until I started looking at the "sources". Many did not even mention Nair. Others were comments posted after newspaper or blog articles. Some others mentioned Nair in passing, but did not support any of the statements made. Perhaps Nair is the statesman he likes us to think he is and perhaps he's notable. However, after cleaning this article with this edit, I think that the only thing we can do is to blow this up. If he's notable after all, it will be easier to start a new article from scratch. Also please note that the article was created with this single edit, followed by a typo correction, which were the two only edits ever of this editor. Delete per WP:TNT. Randykitty (talk) 14:35, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. GabeIglesia (talk) 15:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. GabeIglesia (talk) 15:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. GabeIglesia (talk) 15:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as still nothing imaginably better for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister talk 02:54, 23 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete The nominator is very kind. I looked at this source which is to support "In the same year, Nair was involved advising Poly Energy, a subsidiary of the China Poly Group Corporation, in an abortive takeover bid for the Kurdistan focused Turkish E&P company Genel Energy.[citation needed] Poly Energy's offer of US$2 billion was outbid by Vallares" (until someone slapped a cn tag in the middle). It's a bit unfortunate that it took us two years to find this thing. —SpacemanSpiff 10:43, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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