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The result was delete. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:23, 17 February 2017 (UTC) reply

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Doesn't appear to meet the guidelines in WP:NAUTHOR. The author's three books are self-published through BookSurge and don't seem to have significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article. Ahecht ( TALK
PAGE) 17:32, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Many National Geographic Bee competitors have used these publications to advance to the top levels of the competition LuckyWiki26 17:39, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Check out the very positive reviews from top National Geographic Bee contestants in the back of Mr. Iyer's books. Tathagat Bhatia (Captain of the Third-place-winning team at the National Geographic World Championship 2013), Sanjeev (Ricky) Uppaluri (2013 3rd-place Winner), Vansh Jain (2011 2nd-place Winner), Arjun Kandaswamy (2009 2nd-place Winner), National-level Top-ten finalists including Anthony Cheng, Zaroug Jaleel, Milan Sandhu, and Nikhil Desai have all praised Mr. Iyer's books, crediting these publications with their Geo Bee success. LuckyWiki26 18:13, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 20:39, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 20:39, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 20:39, 9 February 2017 (UTC) reply

• Delete. I'm just not finding anything that would support WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. The article is sourced only to the author's website and an article about his son, and in a search I don't see any significant coverage of the subject. I found only one full-length review of any of the books, and that was on a blog. Worldcat shows several editions of his books, none held in more than a small handful of libraries. User reviews don't help with a subject's notability. EricEnfermero ( Talk) 06:24, 10 February 2017 (UTC) reply
• Delete GNG and AUTHOR fail. Confidence on the part of the article author is a nice feature, but so would the author getting to know the Notability policies of Wikipedia. L3X1 My Complaint Desk 17:22, 16 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Note: In the article, I have added some sources and additional information that is relevant to this discussion. CaspianX ( talk) 19:00, 16 February 2017 (UTC) reply

• The reviews on Amazon and Goodreads are user-generated content, and don't help to confer notability. -- Ahecht ( TALK
  PAGE) 20:24, 16 February 2017 (UTC) reply

• Delete, as I agree with nom and EricEnfermero that this specific "Ram Iyer" does not satisfy WP:GNG or WP:NAUTHOR (a Google search shows at least one other Ram Iyer, a professor at TTU, whose claim to notability would be much stronger than the subject of this Article). @ L3X1: there is probably no need to Userfy, as a duplicate exists at User:LuckyWiki26/sandbox/Ram Iyer.-- talk2Chun^{( talk) ( contributions)} 20:25, 16 February 2017 (UTC) reply

Talk2chun Ok. L3X1 My Complaint Desk 20:31, 16 February 2017 (UTC) reply

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