Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/S. Gurusamy

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The result was keep‎. It's Snowing. Hog Farm _Talk 02:12, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

S. Gurusamy

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Doesn't meet WP:NPOL as the subject is only a member of a state legislature, not the federal legislature of India DankPedia (talk) 04:29, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and India. DankPedia (talk) 04:29, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Invalid reason for deletion. All members of state or provincial legislatures are notable. WP:NPOL says: "Politicians and judges who have held international, national, or (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels." LeapTorchGear (talk) 05:02, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. LeapTorchGear (talk) 05:05, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Member of legislative assembly are notable. This should be on the Wikipedia.Almandavi (talk) 05:58, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: State legislators are state-wide legislators, this should be kept speedily. Best, Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 06:17, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Tamil Nadu-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 07:54, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep passes WP:NPOL a State legislator.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 08:42, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I had hoped you would read guidelines more closely after WP:Articles for deletion/Hubert Corsi. WP:NPOL#1 specifically states that Politicians [...] who have held [...] (for countries with federal or similar systems of government) state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels. As a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, he meets that criteria. Now onto WP:NOPAGE, because this article as is likely would not surpass it. It is notoriously difficult to conduct searches on Indian topics (use of non-Latin script, webpages often not indexed on Google, etc.). As I've worked on articles for Tamil Nadu politicians in the past, I know the state maintains an archive of previous members' who's whos at [1]. S. Gurusamy's is located on page 342-244 here. It will still be quite thin after I add from it, but better than before. Curbon7 (talk) 08:58, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, his name in Tamil is "செ. குருசாமி"; perhaps this could help in finding further sources. There seem to be more than a few people with this name. Curbon7 (talk) 08:59, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Additional source with more info: [2]. He apparently changed his name to "S.S. Gurusaamy" on 27 April 2008. Curbon7 (talk) 09:22, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Updated article with sources I've found. Curbon7 (talk) 10:08, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Article notable per WP:NPOL Squawk7700 (talk) 09:16, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Passes WP:NPOL. MarioGom (talk) 10:02, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep An elected member of the legislative assembly fully meets WP:NPOL.Jitendra indulkar (talk) 16:29, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Snow Keep Meets WP:NPOL. TulsaPoliticsFan (talk) 16:46, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep per WP:NPOL, lack of WP:BEFORE and WP:Competence is required. I think this nom meets SK#3, "The nomination is completely erroneous. No accurate deletion rationale has been provided." Cavarrone 04:58, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This person pretty obviously meets WP:NPOL as a state legislator. More sources could be included to bolster it but this seems to be a simple case of lacking WP:BEFORE. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 20:32, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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