Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alamgir Hashmi


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. (non-admin closure) Desertarun (talk) 19:01, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Alamgir Hashmi

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This BLP reads like a CV. None of the listed works or awards strike me as noteworthy or notable, indicating a failure to meet WP:AUTHOR. Additionally, there appears to be a lack of significant coverage in WP:RS, which means the subject also fails basic WP:GNG. — Saqib ( talk  |  contribs ) 13:23, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. — Saqib  ( talk  |  contribs ) 13:23, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Authors, Poetry, United Kingdom,  and Kentucky.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  15:12, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment - Appears in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (1 ed.) (available through Wikimedia Library, excerpted here): "Hashmi, Alamgir (1951– ), was born in Lahore, educated in Pakistan and the United States, and has worked as a professor of English, editor, and broadcaster. His early work ... is characterized by a terse, witty, imagistic style, and reveals a recurring preoccupation with language, time, and place. The poet's peripatetic career in America, Europe, and Pakistan is reflected in the concerns of his subsequent collections, .... As Hashmi has developed, there has been a broadening of human sympathies and an emerging political awareness which have modified the virtuosity and self-absorption of some of his earliest writing. His most recent publications are ...."
 * I would vote Keep by WP:GNG if a similar source was found. FYI, I removed the author bio paragraph that was completely uncited and appears to have been included verbatim from the author's personal website. This may be a copyright concern. Suriname0 (talk) 15:58, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I acknowledge that there is some coverage available. However, the concern lies in the insufficient extent of coverage to meet the WP:SIGCOV. The subject is listed on Oxford Reference, just because some of their work must have been hosted by Oxford University Press but I'm sure that won't make him WP:IHN. -— Saqib ( talk  |  contribs ) 16:07, 26 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep. Unusually for a poet, there is plenty of in-depth coverage of him and his work to be found       —David Eppstein (talk) 17:31, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep While the article needs work, there are tons of citations out there proving this poet meets notability guidelines, including in-depth analysis of the poet's works in various literary journals accessible through the Wikipedia Library.--SouthernNights (talk) 21:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep - per the sources identified by David Eppstein. Suriname0 (talk) 20:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep - As per David Eppstein, plenty of coverage about his poetry, a notable subject. The editorships and awards also look pretty significant to me in a couple of cases (but need to be substantiated by sources). Qflib (talk) 20:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep per David Eppstein, plenty of sources, notable Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 12:55, 2 May 2024 (UTC)


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