Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdul Khaliq Hazara (assassin)


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The result was   keep. postdlf (talk) 22:02, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Abdul Khaliq Hazara (assassin)

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Only notable for one event. PROD was challenged with the comment: "Removing prod per WP:BIO1E, which specifically says that assassins of major political leaders generally should have their own articles." I'd argue that Mohammed Nadir Shah isn't a major political leader (compared to the guideline's example of Archduke Franz Ferdinand), and the penultimate paragraph of BIO1E is more applicable – he played a major role in a minor event. In any case, GNG trumps all, and I can't find anything that would amount to significant coverage in reliable sources. DoctorKubla (talk) 16:11, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep The King of a country is a major political figure. Wikipedia should have an article on this topic, his name appears in many Google Books, and other websites some of which call him a hero and martyr he does appear have greatest importance for the Hazara people in that regard (tripod is not a RS just linking as evidence). Coverage is "significant" for notability purposes when it says "He assassinated the king of a country", that's plenty significant. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 18:43, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - An individual who committed a regicide, clearly a seminal event in the history of the country. Substantial web footprint, albeit mostly blogs. I have no doubt that sources exist to get this beyond GNG, although it is likely that many of these sources are non-English. Carrite (talk) 16:33, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. GNG most certainly does not trump all: in particular it does not trump common sense, which tells us that the assertions that a king is not a major political leader and that his assassination is a minor event are nonsense. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:24, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
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