Talk:Vijay Kumar (sport shooter)

Indian "John Smith"?

I saw mention of a "Vijay Kumar" in an IEEE newsletter. I thought I'd recognized this name from Computer Associates (I was actually thinking of Sanjay Kumar), so I looked for the Wikipedia article (as I always do when my curiosity is piqued). I found an article about someone else entirely, sounding as if it was written by the person himself (a serious no-no on WP). So I started a search to look for prominent Vijay Kumars, and discovered that this name seems to be to India what a "John Smith" or similar name is to the U.S. and UK! The first set of 2.3 million hits that I got included:

• The U-Penn professor, who is a University of Pennsylvania professor with extensive publications, honoraria, and other notability-supporting documentation;
• A U.S. Congressional candidate from Tennessee;
• A dean and director at MIT;
• A spiritualist/author, who owns vijaykumar.com and vijaykumar.org);
• Another professor at University of Missouri–Kansas City;
• Yet another professor at Indian Institute of Science;
• One more professor at Illinois Institute of Technology;
• A blogger, a cricket player, a contact welder, and so on.

A (U.S.) Amazon.com search yielded at least two more authors whose English-language technical books already have Kindle editions. (The number of Vijay Kumars in IEEE alone must cause confusion!)

The one thing I didn't see, in the first few pages of hits, was anything about a Vijay Kumar who gold-medalled at the Commonwealth Games. That doesn't mean he's not notable, but it does imply that there are many Vijay Kumars more notable than him, and that this article should at least be a disambiguation page, not one devoted to the current person. I did find this man in a more narrow search, and here are two news articles to help start writing a good, sourced article about him:

• "Vijay Kumar wins gold". Rediff India Abroad. April 10, 2006. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
• Kamesh Srinivasan (December 7, 2006). "Vijay Kumar 'gifted' shooting bronze". The Hindu. Retrieved 2009-04-20.

(That narrower search also found yet another, a Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who had a very different involvement with the Commonwealth Games.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for not seeing this earlier. I'm not the author of this article, but I've cleaned it up a bit in the last month and added the performance timelines. It certainly needs more work though! As for the ambiguous name situation: Yes, this can be a problem, but only because nobody has written articles about the other Vijay Kumars yet. As soon as somebody writes an article (a stub will do) about another Vijay Kumar so notable that the shooter ceases to be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the name, this article will of course be moved to Vijay Kumar (sport shooter). But there are no provisions in WP:DAB or WP:MOSDAB for disambiguation against articles that do not yet exist. (Maybe there should be? Could be discussed at WT:DAB.) —JAO • T • C 18:44, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Arjuna Award Year

This official reference quotes the year of Arjuna Award as 2006 [1]; can anyone confirm?பரிதிமதி (talk) 07:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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