Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarath Kumara de Silva
To be fair, there are certain notability claims (e.g. member of a legislature) for which as long as we can |verify them as true, we keep the article even if it isn't |properly referenced yet. (The operative word here being ''yet'', as the article ''does'' still have to get ''improved'' with proper referencing — we extend it the ''presumption'' of notability ''pending'' better sources, but the article is most definitely not ''exempted'' from ''ever'' having to get properly sourced.) But being the internal head of a civil service department isn't one of them — even in the UK or the USA, he would only be considered notable if he could be shown as the ''subject'' of enough reliable source coverage to clear , and would ''not'' be given an automatic "no sourcing required" inclusion freebie just because he exists. But a GNG pass is not what the sources here are showing: all three of the "general references" are dead links, while the two ''properly'' footnoted references are a primary source and a blurb. That's not good enough, and it wouldn't be good enough for a civil servant in the UK or the US either
— User:Bearcat, 21:51, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:V||WP:RS||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Verifiability)