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The result was delete. There is a consensus among non-banned editors. Barkeep49 ( talk) 01:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
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No sense of notability, No RS, fails GNG. Created by SPA to promote the subject. Joanrivers ( talk) 05:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log ( step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 March 30. — cyberbot I Talk to my owner:Online 05:34, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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- Delete per WP:BASIC and WP:NAUTHOR. Could not find coverage of Srivastav beyond this article from "Virtual Strategy Magazine". The article is written by "The Backbenchers Inc", a company founded by Srivastav. userdude 06:40, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- Note The original nominator of this AFD has been blocked as a possibly compromised account. Yunshui 雲 水 07:18, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- Comment. The article appears to be junk. I quote from it as it was until a couple of minutes ago: Bhanu wrote ''Hacker 404 Happiness not found'' while he was going through multiple mental disorders like [[Borderline Personality Disorder]] (BPD), [[Asperger syndrome]] (AS), [[Insomnia]] & suicidal tendencies. As at the time of writing the novel, he was on treatment and he is still fighting with some of these.<ref>{{cite web|title=HACKER 404 Error Happiness not Found by Bhanu Srivastav becomes fastest bestseller in India|url= https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/41889393/hacker-404-error-happiness-not-found-by-bhanu-srivastav-becomes-fastest-bestseller-in-india|publisher=wrcbtv.com|accessdate=22 March 2020|date=}}</ref>. Not one of those "mental disorders" is even mentioned in the cited web page. (The closest is an implication that the biographee would have benefitted from psychiatric help, for one or more unspecified problems.) Of course I removed these two sentences, but I wonder what other fictions the article might contain. -- Hoary ( talk) 08:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- Delete. Consider the section "Early life and education": it has four paragraphs, three of which are unsourced but one of which is sourced to Crunchbase, which for this purpose is junk. And its fourth (and of course unsourced) paragraph reads Bhanu holds more than hundred Certifications from Institutes & Companies like [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], [[New York Institute of Finance]], [[World Bank]], [[International Monetary Fund]], [[National Stock Exchange of India]], [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore|IIM Bangalore]], [[Indian Institute of Banking and Finance]] and so on. (I wonder what "certifications" means.) Oh, but " Bhanu Srivastav likes to live his life in an anonymous way and is totally Google proof." -- Hoary ( talk) 10:02, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- Delete I'm not sure what shenanigans have been going on with the nominator, but from my reading this is a promotional article supported exclusively by unreliable sources - I don't see that WP:BASIC or WP:NAUTHOR being met. GirthSummit (blether) 14:49, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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The result was delete. There is a consensus among non-banned editors. Barkeep49 ( talk) 01:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
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No sense of notability, No RS, fails GNG. Created by SPA to promote the subject. Joanrivers ( talk) 05:23, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log ( step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2020 March 30. — cyberbot I Talk to my owner:Online 05:34, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. PriceDL ( talk) 07:56, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. PriceDL ( talk) 07:56, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:BASIC and WP:NAUTHOR. Could not find coverage of Srivastav beyond this article from "Virtual Strategy Magazine". The article is written by "The Backbenchers Inc", a company founded by Srivastav. userdude 06:40, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
- Note The original nominator of this AFD has been blocked as a possibly compromised account. Yunshui 雲 水 07:18, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- Comment. The article appears to be junk. I quote from it as it was until a couple of minutes ago: Bhanu wrote ''Hacker 404 Happiness not found'' while he was going through multiple mental disorders like [[Borderline Personality Disorder]] (BPD), [[Asperger syndrome]] (AS), [[Insomnia]] & suicidal tendencies. As at the time of writing the novel, he was on treatment and he is still fighting with some of these.<ref>{{cite web|title=HACKER 404 Error Happiness not Found by Bhanu Srivastav becomes fastest bestseller in India|url= https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/41889393/hacker-404-error-happiness-not-found-by-bhanu-srivastav-becomes-fastest-bestseller-in-india|publisher=wrcbtv.com|accessdate=22 March 2020|date=}}</ref>. Not one of those "mental disorders" is even mentioned in the cited web page. (The closest is an implication that the biographee would have benefitted from psychiatric help, for one or more unspecified problems.) Of course I removed these two sentences, but I wonder what other fictions the article might contain. -- Hoary ( talk) 08:06, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- Delete. Consider the section "Early life and education": it has four paragraphs, three of which are unsourced but one of which is sourced to Crunchbase, which for this purpose is junk. And its fourth (and of course unsourced) paragraph reads Bhanu holds more than hundred Certifications from Institutes & Companies like [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], [[New York Institute of Finance]], [[World Bank]], [[International Monetary Fund]], [[National Stock Exchange of India]], [[Indian Institute of Management Bangalore|IIM Bangalore]], [[Indian Institute of Banking and Finance]] and so on. (I wonder what "certifications" means.) Oh, but " Bhanu Srivastav likes to live his life in an anonymous way and is totally Google proof." -- Hoary ( talk) 10:02, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- Delete I'm not sure what shenanigans have been going on with the nominator, but from my reading this is a promotional article supported exclusively by unreliable sources - I don't see that WP:BASIC or WP:NAUTHOR being met. GirthSummit (blether) 14:49, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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