Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanishq Abraham

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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:01, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:BLP1E, a child genius covered in the context of one event (being a young genius and MENSA member) that would be non-notable apart from this. Tarc (talk) 15:40, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Article asserts several things this child is notable for, and provides WP:RS. I have removed much of the united poorly written promotional content to clean it up a little, but it still needs some more work. Chrislk02 ^{Chris Kreider} 15:55, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:17, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:17, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: At present, it's still "world's tallest man in the county." It puts a lot of credence, if not veneration, in Mensa, and otherwise it credits a prodigy for having been a prodigy. Academic achievements are awfully transitory. On the other hand, he may well soon do something amazing that will generate loads of RS notability. Hithladaeus (talk) 19:23, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete subject is still in school, no achievements, no notability. When I was in school I was the county math champion, but I wouldn't claim notability because of it... Kraxler (talk) 16:29, 4 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - it's remarkable that he graduated from high school at 10 years old, but I don't think that's a record. I don't even know if there is a list on WP of similar young graduates. But fails GNG; let's wait till he graduates from medical school and law school in a few months. —Мандичка^YO 😜 10:34, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: Subject is notable for multiple things — such as joining Mensa at 4 and graduating college at 11 (two distinct events so WP:BLP1E doesn't apply) — and articles about him span several years. In addition to the refs in the article at present, these all talk about Tanishq Abraham in substantial detail: [1][2][3][4]. It appears he has appeared on television, may be the youngest graduate of American River College, graduated high school at 10 and his work has been published by NASA; a writer for the Metro says he "might just be the cleverest kid in the world" ([5]). — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 13:11, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The "event", such as it is, is being noted for having a high IQ; all the coverage stems from that, regardless of how many "this is what the super-smart kid did today", "this is what the super-smart kid did last week", and so on. Take the case of the Hiccup Girl; a spate of news for nonstop hiccuping as a kid, then an arrest for murder. Young people are arrested every day for murder, but the only reason that one got press is because some reporters saw the name and said "oh yea, the Hiccup Girl". Tarc (talk) 13:44, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Young people are arrested every day for murder" — How many people graduate from college at 11 every day? I can't find many who have achieved similar feats. I would suggest that, at the very least, Abraham should be listed on List of child prodigies, but he doesn't seem to fit nicely under any of the article's sections. — Bilorv_(talk)^(c)(e) 14:29, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't take this the wrong way, as I do not mean to denigrate the subject of the article in any way, nor to suggest that he will not achieve great things, but, unfortunately, I can easily imagine my college graduating a yellow dog, if it paid tuition and could lay down a sacrifice bunt. My point is that graduating college is wonderful. It's an important achievement, but it's relative. It is something that is not necessarily made into a greater achievement because of the age of the candidate. I would not want to have the proceedings stop and say, "Let's give extra applause for this graduate, who is blind," nor "this graduate, who is in a wheel chair." The accomplishment -- graduating college -- is identically difficult, we believe, regardless of the struggles a person individually faces going in. Therefore, being young, like being old, is merely an accident, and the accomplishment remains "graduating college." Again, I don't mean to suggest the young person is not truly remarkable -- only that he has not had time, yet, to determine his own achievements. If he wants to pull a Charles Bukowski, he should be able to. Hithladaeus (talk) 16:28, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete The only real achievement he is being touted for - graduating high school at age 10 - occurred in a home-schooling context, which (to put it kindly) may be less stringent in its requirements than a regular high school. BTW the article does not even claim that he "graduated college at age 11", as stated above with no evidence - and in any case that achievement would be meaningless without substantial independent reliable coverage. Coverage is local and in some cases dead links. He may be notable someday, but he isn't now. --MelanieN (talk) 17:13, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - More of a page 6D community news event. Heyyouoverthere (talk) 05:11, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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