On 3/5/06, guru brahma <wikibra(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote:
The message below has set me thinking about an
article I had nominated for deletion sometime back, [[Taran Adarsh]]. He is a film critic,
widely loved and hated in the online community and his reviews are picked up and amplified
by several blogs. He gets 35,000 hits on google but none of the first 100 hits has
anything except his name - some of them have opinions about him but none of them have any
biographical data. The afd closed as no consensus to delete, because people say that the
no. of hits implies notability. Even if that is taken as a measure of notability, the
article does not contain anything related to the biographical data of the person as no
such information appears to be available easily and the person remains non-verifiable. Any
thoughts on how to deal with such issues??
Perhaps, like with Brian Peppers, the biographical information is not
relevant to the article? If his reviews are widely disseminated, is
discussion of the reviews and opinions of the person enough? We don't
have a lot of biographical details on Shakespeare, or probably lots of
other famous historical figures, but that's not a problem, if their
contributions are well known and notable.
Steve