Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Nirvikar Dahiya


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was: Delete (per Jeffq and !vote).  Cbrown1023  talk  20:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Nirvikar Dahiya
Indian person (MD?) with obscure notability. No Wikipedia article, 521 Ghit. --Aphaia 19:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 20:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment: I'd rather do more research for now, but I doubt his fame is in a bit limited area. --Aphaia 19:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep I of course vote to keep it. Give me a little time to do more research on him. There are a lot of notable people who don't have Wikipedia articles. Is there any good reason to delete it. Saksjn 19:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Another reason could be a poor sourcing. Though the citation from a website is not prohibited, it is not always a reliable source. And your formatting doesn't work at all (it isn't even clickable). --Aphaia 19:24, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per low Ghits but no Wikipedia article.--Jusjih 15:29, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - good quotes. I would not rely on the absence of a Wikipedia article; I've created plenty of articles on Wikipedia of notable people not there already.--Poetlister 16:38, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 13:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete unless subject is identified and quotes have proper, reliable sources. I agree that the lack of a Wikipedia article is merely troubling, not definitive, so I dug a little further. I took the trouble to fix the irregular sourcing formatting to expose the actual website sources. This revealed that they are all extremely unreliable tertiary sources by Wikimedia standards:
 * Philip Humbert, "Quotes of the Week". No sources given. Alexa: rank ~1000K.
 * MotivateUs.com, "Motivation: Late 1997". No sources given. Includes lots of unnotables' quotes, like "Sally from Virginia". Alexa rank ~113K.
 * "Wednesday's Quotes". Unidentified person's untitled Lotus Notes quote database published to the web]. No sources given. (Need I say Alexa has never heard of this?)
 * MotivateUs.com, "Motivation: Early 1999". See above.
 * So, the subject is not identified, the number of Google hits suggests they aren't any more notable than me (and I'm not notable), and the tertiary sources are worthless. If this article passes without major improvement, I will feel qualified to create an article about myself. (I, at least, have some quotes published in an obscure newspaper.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:13, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 14:37, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
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