Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jayanth Munigala

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The result was delete. clear consensus DGG ( talk ) 17:25, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jayanth Munigala[edit]

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This is a biography of a retired civil servant from India, which has been tagged for notability for almost 3 years. The lead describes his claim to fame as being the first national civil servant to come from a particular rural district, a fact which is not sourced. Most of the article is unsourced, including his date of birth.
His career as described in the article looks like that of a relatively successful civil servant, but not one that requires an encyclopedic biography. His final role was as controller of the state university entrance examination council.
6 sources are currently used in the article. The first is his name in a list of officers stationed in a district. Two are news articles quoting him in the context of his role as secretary for disaster management in one of the states. One is a PDF noting his membership of a working group. Finally there are two articles which note his appointment and voluntary retirement from the examination council. So all of these are merely passing mentions without any biographical information. There was also an "Articles" section which reproduced some of the sources, plus some other articles with again only passing mentions, so I deleted that.
There is also a list of three ebooks that he is written, but the contents of that do not meet WP:NAUTHOR. So in summary, this is a BLP that falls well short of WP:GNG. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 01:47, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by nominator: When I went to notify the author of the article of this nomination, I discovered that it was mainly written by Munigala, so it is likely that this is an autobiography. The user's talk page indicates that it was speedy deleted at least once before. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 01:55, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as there's simply nothing to suggest keeping and the best my searches found was one link. Pinging past users FoCuSandLeArN and Peaceworld111 and also DGG who may be interested to comment. SwisterTwister talk 06:03, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sam Sailor ^Talk! 03:57, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:34, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom's great investigation. Legacypac (talk) 06:22, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: An autobiography by a man with a job (retired). Passing in-role mentions do not amount to biographical notability, nor does self-publishing e-books with pothi.com. AllyD (talk) 18:58, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.