Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ishwar Sharan

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The result was delete. —Tom Morris (talk) 00:56, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ishwar Sharan

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This article was created by a friend of its subject. "Ishwar Sharan" is a common name but relevant GHits are slim & Gscholar is worse still. He and the cottage industry that surrounds him claim that there is a media blackout of their fringe theories, which have origins in & are supported by Hindu nationalists. Despite the numerous citations, those that relate to the theory itself are all published and/or written by people with high levels of controversy surrounding them. The theory itself seems to attract no mainstream support at all. I think that we are giving a lot of space to a quite extreme theory falling under WP:FRINGE here, even after toning down the language that was originally in the article. Sitush (talk) 19:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As far as notability goes, this book is interesting. It names a lot of Hindutva and Hindu nationalist theorists (and notes that most of them are not academics). Among those referred to are Sita Ram Goel, Koenraad Elst, P. N. Oak & K. D. Sethna. It also mentions the Voice of India (now the Voice of Dharma) as a Hindutva publishing house. However, despite the many names referred to, it does not mention Ishwar Sharan. Is this an indication that he is not even considered to be a notable person in these circles? Our article relies heavily on an allegedly banned interview, on the output of Goel, Elst and VoI/VoD, and on nonentities writing on non-mainstream opinion sites (such as this) & in the odd less-than-spectacular newspaper. - Sitush (talk) 22:58, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Some info has come to light here regarding scholarly doubts for claims relating to early Christianity/St Thomas in India. Nonetheless, Sharan's views remain extreme in their depth & presentation (eg: what has the appearance of a persecution complex) and his notability questionable. - Sitush (talk) 09:46, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hinduism-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:53, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. —Ism schism (talk) 12:25, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not a notable subject. There are no third party reliable sources. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 12:25, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I've seen his name in a couple of places before, but there's no real WP:RS coverage of him, so doesn't pass WP:BIO. —SpacemanSpiff 13:48, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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