Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shivendu Ranjan

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The result was delete. Kurykh (talk) 19:46, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Fails GNG cant seem to find any independent sources. FITINDIA (talk) 05:00, 27 March 2017 (UTC) De-Orphan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.208.146.151 (talk) 06:52, 27 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. FITINDIA (talk) 11:53, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. FITINDIA (talk) 11:53, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:26, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete as there is no evidence that the subject meets WP:ACADEMIC. Citation count not good enough to pass WP:ACADEMIC#C1. Publishing books (even with good publishers) is not a notable feat in itself. The book that the article claims to have been adopted by several universities around the world, is one that is part of Sustainable Agricultural Reviews, a book series. However, it seems that Ranjan has only co-edited some volumes in this series, and the actual series editor is a different person. The claim that Ranjan is the first Indian to have published in this book series is also a dubious one since his co-author is also Indian. Being an associate editor of Environmental Chemistry Letters is also not good enough for WP:ACADEMIC#C8, which requires the subject to be the editor-in-chief (other journals cited in the article feel like borderline predatory journals to me). Other categories of WP:ACADEMIC don't seem to be applicable. Most of the newspaper articles cited in the main article are not directly related to the subject, and apart from this brief article in the Dainik Jagran that borders on being a hagiography of the subject, there's no real coverage for WP:GNG. WP:TOOSOON perhaps. — Stringy Acid (talk) 08:19, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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