Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jyotish Chandra De
The article creator is a relative of De but recent conversation with them has not been productive. I've tried searching under various permutations of his name - J. C. De etc. He is mentioned in {{cite journal |journal=British Medical Journal |title=Naval And Military Appointments |volume=2 |issue=2751 |date=20 September 1913 |page=263 |jstor=25307179}} as being admitted to the Indian Medical Service as a probationary Lieutenant on 26 July 1913. He had a M.B. at that time. It is possible that he rose in rank to Lieutenant-Colonel, per a snippet view in {{cite book |title=List of the Fellows, Members, Extra-licentiates and Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of Holders of the Diploma in Public Health, Granted Conjointly by the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons |publisher=Royal College of Physicians |year=1956 |page=393 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9PIvAQAAMAAJ}} and another snippet view suggests that in 1913 he may have been the first person to be awarded an honours degree in Sanskrit from Krishnagar College {{cite book |title=History and Register of Krishnagar College, 1846-1945 |first=Nirmal Kanti |last=Majumdar |publisher=Superintendent Government Print |year=1950 |page=37 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VPegAAAAMAAJ}}. That latter might also verify that by 1950 he had become a professor and had a degree from London University but Sanskrit in 1913 doesn't fit well with his age or medical career. There is nothing in the (very useful) customised GNews search facility that {{u|Tito Dutta}} designed and - surprisingly for IMS/Indian Civil Service - almost nothing in the ''London Gazette''. The ''Gazette'' records merely the http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28754/pages/6419 same appointment as mentioned in the ''BMJ'' and http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33054/pages/3794 a promotion from captain to major on 26 January 1925.The problem with the above is that there is no certainty that the sources are referring to the same person and the prolonged military involvement does not seem to fit well with his claimed academic career. I can find no medical papers published by him, nor any record of his professorship or time in London (it is possible that he took an external degree). Frankly, this person looks likely to be a medic-turned-administrator rather than an academic. The ''BMJ'' carries loads of obituaries and yet his death is not recorded even in that, nor is he mentioned in the ''India Lists'' so I'm afraid that this article seems to fail both  and the wider  ''unless'' someone can verify that he was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (they cannot - I emailed them
— User:Sitush, 10:32, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)