Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afzal Ali Shigri


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The result was no consensus.  Sandstein  10:04, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Afzal Ali Shigri

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Subject does not appear to meet relevant notability guidelines and lacks non-trivial coverage from independent reliable sources. Steps were taken to locate sources WP:BEFORE this nomination, but were not successful. This was recently created and deleted. Saqib (talk) 05:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Keep: Afzal Ali Shigri is a famous Pakistani civil service officer, a former IG Sindh, security analyst and also a notable columnist in Pakistan's largest English newspaper Dawn. There are enough reliable sources which can prove the notability of the subject. Without any solid proof this page must not be deleted. Yet more citation needed which can be improved. He is also a trustee of a notable NGO Marafie Foundation Great An786 (talk) 12:21, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 07:43, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 10:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 10:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Keep The subjects served in many senior positions in the Pakistani civil service. The equivalent of the office holder these jobs in any anglo-saxon countries has a wikipedia page. Considering all the current RS in this article as "trivial coverage" would reflect systemic bias against non-western countries. Emass100 (talk) 14:02, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The only senior position the subject served is Inspector-general of police of Sindh Police. Inspector-general of police is equivalent to chief constable in the UK. Wikipedia bios missing on several UK's chief constable. --Saqib (talk) 07:57, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * While WP doesn't have an article on all of the UK's current chief constables; for a lot of the ones listed here, their only claim to notability seem to be their position as chief constable, such as Paul Crowther (police officer) and Ian Dyson. The sourcing in their articles is similar to the sourcing for Afzal Ali Shigri.Emass100 (talk) 19:18, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

Speedy Keep: Afzal Ali Shigri is not only a civil service officer, he is a well known writer. His articles are published in Dawn a famous English newspaper of Pakistan. He is also an activist. He is the trustee of Marafie Foundation an NGO based in Pakistan. WikiMaster 15:09, 20 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Note This AfD is sock infested Sockpuppet investigations/Anchan Balti. --Saqib (talk) 14:47, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I've struck the votes of the socking user above. Patar knight - chat/contributions 16:22, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 15:58, 27 March 2019 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:45, 3 April 2019 (UTC)


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