Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahavir Singh

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The result was keep. Spartaz ^Humbug! 05:25, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mahavir Singh

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A common name but appears to fail WP:GNG. Was previously erroneously BLPPROD'ed. Tagged as unsourced for years. Sitush (talk) 16:26, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Unreferenced. Nothing in the bio suggests he would pass WP:NBIO anyway. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. PriceDL (talk) 17:01, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. PriceDL (talk) 17:01, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~Meh!-Actually, iff he was a justice of High Court/Supreme Court, he would pass but sadly, I don't find any references.Winged Blades^Godric 04:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This book confirms that the subject was a justice of the Allahabad High Court. There are more potential sources found by focussed Google Books and Google Scholar searches, but I don't have the time and inclination to investigate them now. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 11:16, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Sitush:, any Supreme Court Justice deserves a sure-shot WP entry.What's our current consensus about High Court Justices w.r.t Indian Judiciary?Winged Blades^Godric 11:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I rescued Pramada Charan Banerjee some years ago (but he was also a university vice-chancellor) and we do have a category for Indian High Court judges. I've no idea if being a HC judge alone is inherently notable. If it is, we're going to have an awful lot of stubs that have no chance of further development. - Sitush (talk) 13:56, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. High Court judges in Commonwealth countries are generally regarded as being notable. Although not politicians, they do pass WP:POLITICIAN (which was clearly formulated for American judges) as holding national judicial office. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:10, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in that case I am happy to withdraw this nomination, with thanks to the IP for managing to source something that definitely relates to the article subject. I can only see snippet views of everything but the d.o.b. is there, as is the Justice title, so we've got verification. It is pretty much a complete waste of space as an article because my perusals of papers etc suggest we're never going to get beyond copying the directory summary that the IP links but, well, I'm often told that space here is cheap and thus worthless crap is perfectly ok. I guess the one merit is that if someone, sometime does actually want to look him up, they'll find it easier to read the directory here than to locate the GBooks version. - Sitush (talk) 16:45, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Just for clarification, though, Necrothesp mentions national office - this guy was a state-level judge from what I can see, working out of Allahabad High Court. I doubt it makes any difference. - Sitush (talk) 16:48, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Indian High Courts aren't really state courts in any case. They're national courts that are divided into sections to cover the country and only the Supreme Court of India is higher. The judges are appointed by the President of India. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:03, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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