Talk:Sayed Sadaat

Sources + credibility
This (From the Kabul minister to the Leipzig food supplier – Sayed Sadaat) seems a more detailed source, though I'm not sure how reliable any of our sources really are.Tlhslobus (talk) 18:13, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

It tells a rather different story from our other sources,and sounds rather sceptical. It says his parents were Afghan teachers in Nangarhar, eastern Afghanistan, with 8 children, but could afford to have him educated at Oxford. it says he had worked in telecoms specializing in the development of SIM cards, some of the time in Lausanne, Switzerland, for Swisscom. And he had a house in Oxford. After being forced to resign from Office in 2018, supposedly for resisting corruption, he spent 2 years working as a consultant in Afghanistan before flying to Leipzig in December 2020. The reason given for his lowly job (if I correctly understand the article's rather unclear English) is that his technical knowledge is out-of-date as things have changed a lot since 2016. Lack of German is not mentioned. Nor are family members said to be in danger. Instead his Facebook post about the Taliban takeover is described as surprisingly friendly - “A new phase begins. And with it the hope for a progressive and safe Afghanistan". The article seems to be hinting that most of his story is based on his claims, though it does show a small photo of him in a suit with an Afgnan flag in the background - the kind of photo you might expect for an Afghan Minister. It says he was in the Cabinet (as is also implied by those sources who say he was 'the'(not just 'a') Communications minister), after replacing his boss when the latter was sacked 4 months after Sadaat joined the Ministry, seemingly in 2016. This contradicts our {{Ghani cabinet]] article which says (without giving a source) that in the Cabinet the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology was held by Shahzad Gul Ayoubi from 2017 to the present,tho the Ministry article indicates (without a correct citation) that there was at least one later Minister called Mashomeh Khavari, while it also has an out-of-date source that says the Minister in Jan 2016 was called Abdul Raziq Wahidi. The story also seems to imply that he was not a politician (as we currently describe him) but a technocrat brought in to the government from outside politics. I'm not yet sure how we should deal with all this (and I suspect Google may eventually come up with better info). Tlhslobus (talk) 21:44, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

MSN also has a very ministerial-looking photo, which is described as having been provided by The National. Indeed the rest of their story also seems to be from The National (Abu Dhabi). Tlhslobus (talk) 22:05, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

No 3rd parties sources
There seems to be no sources except the interview of Sayed Sadaat himself. Every article published since does not provide any anterior source. Doing a 1-hour web search with dorking methods did not provide any relevant results, unlike Mashomeh Khavari or Abdul Raziq Wahidi.

“For information about living people, only the most reliable sources should be used. On the other hand, self-published sources written by articles' subjects can sometimes be used as sources of information about themselves.”

Does interviews of the subject are considered as most reliables ones? Ionipst (talk) 12:48, 2 September 2021 (UTC)