Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ahmed Bin Ali Al-Hemyari


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The result was deleted per G3 as this is very evidently a blatant hoax. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 21:57, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Ahmed Bin Ali Al-Hemyari

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Deprodded. Same reason: Possible hoax. Article makes no sense. The dates do not correspond to those of the actual Himyarite Kingdom. The creator's explanation on the talk page makes no sense either. Srnec (talk) 00:04, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Royalty and nobility and Yemen. Shellwood (talk) 01:26, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and History. Curbon7 (talk) 03:01, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - I can't find any reliable sources about this person at all. The one used in the article doesn't even mention the subject. The Himyarite Kingdom was disestablished in 570 yet this person was born in 1940, so their claim to being a king of this kingdom is clearly false. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 13:59, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - The only source cited here, The History of the Arabs before Islam by Jawad Ali, is a legitimate work talking (in vol. 4, p. 173 as cited) about epigraphic evidence for some kings of the Himyarite Kingdom (110 BCE – 570 CE). However, it contains nothing about this 20th-century Ahmad ibn Ali al-Himyari. It's also impossible that the editor who wrote this article only got the dates wrong, since Ahmad ibn Ali is a quintessentially Islamic name that could never have been in use before the 7th century. The article clearly is either a hoax or (perhaps just as likely) describing some modern Yemeni's lively imagination of being an ancient Himyarite king redivivus. In the latter case, there is a very slight chance that the subject actually is notable (claiming to be a Himyarite king is not wholly improbable to be a successful political strategy for a Yemeni tribal leader), but given the in-universe and unsourced nature of what we have now WP:TNT would surely apply. ☿ Apaugasma  ( talk  ☉) 11:28, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete, and fast. I don't see any reason to wait the full week. In addition to what Apaugasma says about the nonsensicality of the article itself, the editor who created the article also created other suspected hoaxes, has been blocked for disruptive editing, and went by the username "Mohammed Ali Joke". This is almost certainly a vandal wasting our time. And even if the article does somehow refer to a real personage, it's so incoherent that we can't tell who he was or in which century, or even which millennium, he lived. A. Parrot (talk) 14:50, 29 December 2022 (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.