Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdeslam Serghini


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The result was delete. Sarahj2107 (talk) 13:57, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Abdeslam Serghini

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My searches simply found nothing better at all and the current article is noticeably of concern, both information and sources, nothing currently suggesting keeping and improving. SwisterTwister  talk  05:57, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak delete. I found only passing mentions in several sources, enough to show he existed and played a part in the Moroccan nationalist movement but not in-depth enough for WP:GNG:   . On the other hand, the language and transliteration issues (and all the chaff provided by travel guides that mention the street named after him, under both spellings) may have prevented me from finding better sources. So if some turn up, I would be willing to change my mind. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:28, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:42, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete per David Eppstein. The article reads like a lot of fan-driven OR with a host of unreliable sources. It's possible a reasonable article could be written based on French- and Arabic-language sources but this article is insufficient. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 13:22, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete I found some copy-paste work at this link going on. Not properly sources and also written very poorly. Needs to be deleted. The subject most likely doesn't even meet notability.   Nik ol ai Ho   21:21, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Note that America.Pink is a cheesy chinese site which copies material from a variety of sources, including wikipedia. Kuru   (talk)  00:24, 10 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep -- My guess is that America Pinks is mirroring WP, which takes us nowhere. The question is whether the content is reliable.  Essentially he was a lecturer in a Muslim university.  The article ends by saying that he appointed President of the supreme court.  If correct such a person is surely notable.  If streets are being named after him, again it may point to notability.  I accept that the article may be guilty of poppy adulation, but the cure to that is editing, not deletion.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:23, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. In the current state of the article there is too little that is actually solidly verifiable, and almost all of the content looks like pure WP:OR. If the article were to be stubbified to something basic and satisfying WP:V, it's not clear what that something would actually be.  Nsk92 (talk) 13:12, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Notability isn't inherited just by association. As referred to above, Serghini's involvement in nationalist causes brought him alongside different influential figures and has meant that he's tangentially mentioned by some reliable sources. Yet that appears to be pretty much it. Hunting around some more myself hasn't changed my mind. I agree with deleting the page. CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 13:50, 19 May 2016 (UTC)


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