Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D. Bap Reddy
about this one. It is true that currently the article is in terrible shape, no references or sources. But the guy might actually have been a notable agricultural scientist/ecologist and it is possible that he might pass . Apparently there is something called "Dr. D. Bap Reddy National Award for Integrated Pest Management" by Plant Protection Association of Indiahttp://www.assocham.org/events/recent/km3/biotech/speakers/profile_manjunath.htm. GoogleScholar does not show much in terms of citability of his workhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?lr=&q=%22Bap%20Reddy%22&um=1&sa=N&tab=ps but GoogleBooks returns 81 hitshttp://books.google.com/books?tab=sp&sa=N&lr=&q=%22Bap+Reddy%22&um=1&sa=N. Granted, many of these are books/articles/technical reports by him, rather than citations of his work (of which there are still quite a few). However, we are talking about someone who did most of his scholarly work in the 60s and, moreover, in India, so one could understand that the electronicaally available sources might be scarce. One of the references above is to some bookhttp://books.google.com/books?id=9EwqAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Bap+Reddy%22&dq=%22Bap+Reddy%22&lr=&ei=siEqSOK3Eqe6jgGgjKzIDQ&pgis=1 where he is explicitly characterized as "eminent agricultural scientist" (although the publication date of 1936 looks strange to me in view of his age; I think that date might be wrong or something). So, all in all, I have a feeling that we might be missing some significant info here that might show actual bona fide notability. Still, unless some knowledgeable person actually digs up some more conclusive references to indicate his academic notability, the article probably would have to be deleted
— User:Nsk92, 23:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)