Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashwant Dwivedi (2nd nomination)
This is a difficult nomination, because there are dozens of news stories by different news organizations about Dwivedi or that quote him substantially. However, the questions raised about Dwivedi's background/positions don't seem adequately addressed, and neither the government nor news organizations in Fiji seem like truly reliable sources. If sources like ''The Fiji Times'', ''Fiji Sun'', ''Fiji Broadcasting Corp'', ''Fiji Live'', ''Fiji Daily Post'', or ''Radio Fiji'' could be considered reliable, I think the amount of coverage he's attracted would easily meet , but they just don't seem to take fact-checking seriously. In a http://archive.today/sF5tG 1999 libel suit against ''The Fiji Daily Post'', in which Dwivedi was named as a defendant, the defendants didn't even show up. (Dwiveldi http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0003/S00049/new-hindi-news-magazine-launched-in-fiji.htm left the ''Daily Post'' to become editor of ''Prabhaat'' shortly before the May 2000 hearing). In 2007, ''The Fiji Sun'' ran http://pidp.org/archive/2007/April/04-11-10.htm an article both asserting that Dwivedi was the Fiji Consulate to Vancouver, while stating that Dwivedi denied that he was the Fiji Consulate, amidst complaints of fraud by Dwivedi for which they couldn't contact him for a response; later, the ''Sun'' continued to describe Dwivedi using a number of official-sounding titles to official-sounding organizations. In a http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?ref=archive&id=168345 2011 letter to the editor published in ''The Fiji Times'', a reader questioned the Times' description of Dwivedi as a former senior employee of the Fiji embassy in Canada, saying that there was no such embassy; the ''Times'' published the letter but made no response to it, and continued referring to Dwivedi with various official-sounding titles. The claims of Dwivedi as the Solomon Islands http://www.langleyadvance.com/news/langley-police-mourn-tragedy-in-solomon-islands-1.1058274 head of consular post in Canada (since last year's earthquake in the S.I.) seem similarly questionable, with the main indicator being a http://www.siconsulate.com/ Consulate General of Solomon Islands to Canada website, but it's not clear that this is an official website; it may be a website Dwivedi http://www.kpu.ca/news/kwantlen-students-develop-website-consulate-solomon-islands-canada convinced some students to make for free, for an organization and title he just invented. I'm not sure at what point we should simply trust these sorts of news organizations as having verified these things with the Fiji and Solomon Islands governments
— User:Agyle, 03:58, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)