Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lindela Ndlovu

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 keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 00:33, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

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Six year old article that has remained with only one sentence and one source since its inception. Only recent news was of their death. Fails basic notability. Rusted AutoParts 16:05, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

• Keep Numerous sources on Google Books. Gareth E Kegg (talk) 16:48, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
• Delete I completely agree with Rusted AutoParts, Lacks references, books has minor mentions. Ireneshih (talk) 16:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep, evidently this AfD has finished him off, because he died this morning and has already been profiled at length in a reliable Zimbabwean media source. He was also awarded the Gold Medal for Research in 2007, which is a strong indication to me he was an important academic that easily meets WP:PROF. Sionk (talk) 19:47, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Zimbabwe-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  23:49, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Human3015^TALK  23:49, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

• Keep. Vice-chancellor of the second-largest university in Zimbabwe is a likely pass of WP:PROF#C6 and the radiovop source looks good enough. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:05, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep Every other academic have wiki pages I dont see why this should be any different. if anything the page just needs more work Redsky89 (talk) 05:47, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

But why did it take six years for any developments to take place? Rusted AutoParts 14:35, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Fair question, but when someone of reknown dies, a public assessment of their life often takes place and it becomes a lot easier to source such an article. His death caused someone to begin to update the article, hence the situation where we are now. Sionk (talk) 18:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

• Keep - but the nomination was quite reasonable at the time. Deb (talk) 12:27, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep - I agree with David Eppstein. Zhumadian (talk) 05:03, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep per David Eppstein. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 22:09, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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