Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdulkadir Ali


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The result was delete. Drmies (talk) 03:41, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Abdulkadir Ali

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WP:BLP, resting on one single news article and a primary source on his own website, of a person notable primarily as a non-winning candidate for president of a country — but out of the 21 other candidates he ran against in that election, the only three who have articles are the winner, his predecessor whom he ousted, and one person who previously held another notable political office. Non-winning candidates do not get articles on that basis alone, but must be demonstrably notable for something else independent of their candidacy — but nothing like that has been demonstrated or sourced here. Delete unless enough reliable source coverage can be piled onto his past presidency of the Somali American Chamber of Commerce to get him over WP:GNG for that. Bearcat (talk) 14:37, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. At Somali presidential election, 2012, there is someone indicated as coming in 4th place in the election (which was an indirect election, where the voters were the members of parliament) under the name Abdiqadir Osoble Ali. I can understand that "Abdulkadir" could be a variant of "Abdiqadir", but if they are the same person, the spelling of his name should be standardized. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:46, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment, Abdiqadir Osoble Ali is someone else, see his fb page for example, https://www.facebook.com/AbdulkadirOsobleAli . Somali naming conventions don't have "Middle Names", they have Name-Father's Name-Grandfather's Name. --Soman (talk) 14:13, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete for now unless it can actually be improved as although I found some links at Books, News, browser and Highbeam, there wasn't much and the name mentioned above seems like someone else considering the different middle name. SwisterTwister   talk  04:49, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 13:16, 10 October 2015 (UTC)


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