Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ranjan Agarwal
Ranjan Agarwal was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to delete.
See note for Jason Brent above. Note that page was previously nominated for deletion in July, and the consensus was to delete. Current article has a creation date of September. Bearcat 02:50, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Delete; appears non-notable. Samaritan 06:30, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)- Abstain for now, waiting on further arguments/hopefully consensus on notability of world-ranked university debaters. Samaritan 21:31, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Strong keep. His competitive achievements make him far more notable than just the office of CUSID president. Not all presidents of CUSID are listed with their own entries, only those who were also competitive debaters of international note. Being one of the world's top debaters makes him notable to anyone researching debating and debaters, just like famous athletes. Fenster 10:15, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- comment: says nothing about him being one of the world's "top debaters".--Ianb 12:07, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- One of the top debaters in North America = one of the top in the world. "Agarwal was one of North America's top-ranked intervarsity debaters in the 1990s. He was named top speaker at the 2001 North American Debating Championship and also won the 1999 Canadian National Debating Championship." Fenster 13:08, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- so has he participated in any world debating contests? --Ianb 19:32, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- well, not withstanding that being first in North America places you among the top in the world, yes -- he was ranked 6th at the world debating championship. [1] Fenster 19:39, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Perhaps we can start a category for Sixth Place Finishers in global competitions? Sorry but this really isn't signficant enough to justify an encyclopedia article. Should we also have articles on the runnerups in World Scrabble Tournaments?AndyL 22:40, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- He's a national champion and best in North America. Perhaps we should delete all NCAA tournament winners because that's a US-only league as well? -- Fenster 22:59, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Perhaps we can start a category for Sixth Place Finishers in global competitions? Sorry but this really isn't signficant enough to justify an encyclopedia article. Should we also have articles on the runnerups in World Scrabble Tournaments?AndyL 22:40, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- well, not withstanding that being first in North America places you among the top in the world, yes -- he was ranked 6th at the world debating championship. [1] Fenster 19:39, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- so has he participated in any world debating contests? --Ianb 19:32, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- One of the top debaters in North America = one of the top in the world. "Agarwal was one of North America's top-ranked intervarsity debaters in the 1990s. He was named top speaker at the 2001 North American Debating Championship and also won the 1999 Canadian National Debating Championship." Fenster 13:08, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: At present a perfect merge and redirect, but the article to which it should be merged does not exist yet, so I am left only with "delete," despite the worthiness of the figure. Geogre 16:11, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete, non-notable, as above. Lord Bob 18:42, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. DCEdwards1966 04:34, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. Academic Challenger 00:54, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Seems non-notable. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:04, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete non-notableAndyL 20:24, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: wrong side of the line. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:07, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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