Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdul Malek Bir Pratik


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The result was   delete. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 09:38, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Abdul Malek Bir Pratik

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A former Havildar (Sergeant) in the Bangladesh army. He was awarded the Bir Protik, the fourth highest military award in Bangladesh. Fails WP:MILPEOPLE. Only source I can find is the PR release found in a few newspapers by the Inter-Service Public Relations Directorate (ISPR), the media relations branch of the Bangladesh military. Bir Pratik/Bir Protik is an honorary title. I see it spelled both ways. Prod was contested. Bgwhite (talk) 05:52, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * delete for reasons as given by nominator. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 09:10, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Though I did try and improve the article at first, I have to concur with the nominator - the award doesn't seem as major as I first thought. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 12:33, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep: The subject seems to have won two other military awards for another war as well. The info is unreferenced, though. Other than the awards, I didn't find anything notable about the subject. --Ragib (talk) 15:57, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The other awards aren't listed at Awards and decorations of the Pakistan Armed Forces. They're probably just campaign medals. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 16:55, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - well short of the standard of WP:MILPEOPLE. If the article is kept, it should be at "Abdul Malek" - "Bir Pratik" is a decoration and (though I can't put my finger on the policy at the moment) we don't include those in article titles - e.g. Leonard Cheshire not "Leonard Cheshire V.C." JohnCD (talk) 21:25, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * If the article is kept, it should not be at "Abdul Malek", since that is a single fairly common given name. He must have a real surname of some sort but the article doesn't reveal it, so we'd have to go with "Abdul Malek (Bir Pratik)" or the like. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 22:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: I strongly suspect that SPA user, created 08:44 2 October, is a sock of who I blocked for three days at 19:01 1 October for repeatedly removing speedy tags from an earlier version of this article, but I do not think it worth raising an SPI yet. JohnCD (talk) 21:45, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The quacking is indeed deafening. - The Bushranger One ping only 09:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - the lack of "signficant coverage" in WP:RS means the subject is non-notable under the WP:GNG. Anotherclown (talk) 06:37, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.