Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Sumit Chowdhury

Not many votes cast, but it's over a week past the due date for closing.--Abramsky (talk) 14:29, 18 April 2014 (UTC)


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Sumit Chowdhury
The [//en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Sumit_Chowdhury&oldid=1702992 original article] (by a single purpose account, here and at Wikipedia) was blatant advertisement copied directly from the book's website. The article has been trimmed substantially, but quotability of the remaining material has not been demonstrated by, e.g., being quoted anywhere other than pre-publication promotion for a book which does not appear to have actually been released yet. — Ningauble (talk) 16:47, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17:00, 9 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete as nom. This also fails verification because it is not clear how much, if any, of this promotional copy about the book is actually quoted from within the book. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:47, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep — noticing this nomination, I did a very slight bit of searching, saw that the subject of the page was clearly notable enough to warrant a page, and added a quote about him as well as a few images relevant to some of the quotes, his cultural heritage, and some of the symbolism he uses. Whatever the motives of the original creator of the page might have been, it had clearly been trimmed and edited well by, and now has been further worked on by me. I see no clear reason to remove it. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Notwithstanding the evident good intentions for [//en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Sumit_Chowdhury&diff=1705625 this addition in the article], I don't think an advertisement for his services at a speakers bureau is suitable material for a compendium of quotations. ~ Ningauble (talk) 21:05, 2 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment At first it seemed that this person was the CEO of a multi-billionaire telecom company in India, but it seems he is just the head of a new business division, he helped found a few years ago. (This is now corrected in the article). As far as I can see, he is not in the board of directors.
 * This makes this lemma into a new book presentation by a organization consultant, and manager wanting to promote his new book. This kind of books a published by 13 in a dozen. Do we really want to promote this kind of works in this way on Wikiquote? Unless there is more (older) work, proving his notability I say we should not support this kind of "book presentation" articles here. -- Mdd (talk) 21:10, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the corrections to the article intro, but the quotes do seem to me to be worth having, and one of the sites I did check before making my comments was "The Global CIO 50: IT Leaders Changing the Business World" Information Week (21 May 2009), where he is listed as notable for leading Reliance Communications "IT and its IT services arm." ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:30, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * @Kalki, I also noticed his name pop up in the "The Global CIO 50", but there was no more text about him attached. Do you have any prove he publish work before? This Google Scholar profile could relate to him? -- Mdd (talk) 21:53, 2 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - Has tones of quotes, and can be notable if someone checks through the quotes. -- Golden burg 111 21:15, 2 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I share Ningauble's (and Mdd's) concerns, the "quotes" by "him" are taken from an advertisement website, and it is not clear that they actually are from the book. (They appear to be descriptions, somewhat unlettered, of what the chapters will consist of.) One would almost worry about copyvio, if it weren't wanted free advertisement.—And even if I'm wrong, and they are from the book, it has yet to be released/published. (Better quotes are needed.) ~ DanielTom (talk) 21:26, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * It is indeed even worse, checking the online source. This book doesn't even seem to be published yet. The origin of those quotes are not the book, but the promotional website on the book. -- Mdd (talk) 21:33, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Now I am wishing that we had a draft namespace where this article could be held until the quotes could be verified as actually existing in a published work. Perhaps we could userfy this to the original author's namespace until such time, but I fear that it would then be forgotten forever. BD2412 T 02:49, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete, multiple issues as noted by Ningauble, above. Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 21:11, 5 April 2014 (UTC)