Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon

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 no consensus with no prejudice against speedy renomination. (non-admin closure) Esquivalience ^t 23:00, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rupinderpal Singh Dhillon

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I'm wary of nominating authors/books because they have weird guidelines. Nonetheless, this looks unlikely to meet any notability guideline and to be mere promo. The most recent books in the list seem likely to be self-published affairs - see Blurb, Inc. Sitush (talk) 11:24, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:38, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - no references at all, let alone any reliable sources.--Rpclod (talk) 01:35, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• DO NOT DELETE..Indian novels are only published by vanity press..you will find all publishers in India charge authors, so that is normal..this page has merely cited the western editions which are by companies such as Blurb, because Indian languages are not published by western publishers.

Also there were many sources including newspapers and other such links. Look at previous versions. Seems people including the author have been on this page and revised many things off it. Plan to link the sources section to all of these over next 2 weeks if allowed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.105.155 (talk) 21:47, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Woah, yes. There is this, this and this. The first of these looks to be a little disingenuous - "Went to University at Oxford, where Hotel Management was studied" is not the University of Oxford (the twice-disgraced lobbyist Derek Draper did a similar thing re: Berkeley). I regret to say that it was me who removed these links, ages ago when they were stuck in the External links section.

  I am not, however, convinced that all Indian novels are vanity press publications and I remain wary about the notability of this chap. - Sitush (talk) 03:11, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have spent time looking at this guy. 2 things I can confirm are 1) He went to Oxford Brookes University not Oxford, but looking at earlier entries it does say that. He was there from 1992 to 1995 when he graduated with a Hotel and Management Degree. 2) I looked into the vanity press thing. In India they do not use the phase vanity press. All local based publishing companies expect authors to have their books printed and there are no royalties except for the exceptionally famous or best sellers. So this is genuine, especially re non english language books. The guy is well known in the literary circles of Punjabi Writers in the UK. What I have done previously is delete the BLURB and other western book entries and replace with references only to the books available via the well known Punjabi publishing houses. In my view if these are the reasons to question this article they no longer stand. I have also had confirmation from Venus TV that he was interviewed as did Desi radio and the BBC Asian Network. If you want to change and update his Oxford entry fine. But I would not change or add anymore now to the changes I have made. I find as with many non european and american persons their sources materials dod not always follow our text books and sources and for example I cam across a guy who lived outside the pyramids and knew the exact size of one which was contradicted by an entry which made reference to a western published book, so he had his change deleted. Afterwards the BBC confirmed he was right. For that reason I tend to be asked to double check the non english world entries.

As I said I see no reason now to add or take away any other detail from this. Leave it to you if your want to explicitly change to Oxford Brookes. I suggest of now we accept that this is genuine.

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