Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bharat Patel


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   Snow Keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:16, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Bharat Patel

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An Attorney General (and possibly the current one) of Zimbabwe, and therefore eminently article-worthy, in one way or another. The problem is, although he verifiably has been Attorney General, this laudatory page about him is otherwise almost completely unsourced -- I've found that the Canadian government (unsurprisingly) doesn't like him, but that's it. The article was created by an SPA and immediately flagged with a CSD notice, removed by Gogo Dodo; it was later prodded but the prod notice was removed by Phil Bridger. Not speediable, not proddable, but also not tolerable in anything like its current state, and I therefore propose deletion in the bureaucratic way. However, if anyone can turn this into a well-sourced article that meets the usual criteria, I'll happily withdraw this proposal. Hoary (talk) 01:35, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep and speedy close - AfD is not for cleanup. - The Bushranger One ping only 02:55, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Question What do you suggest? -- Hoary (talk) 03:02, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Update. No answer from Bushranger, who wrote AfD is not for cleanup. But I cleaned it up anyway. Now what do people think? The article presents an alternative name, a birthdate, and two mentions of the fellow as AG; is this keepworthy? -- Hoary (talk) 03:56, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - Sufficient national government position to merit encyclopedic biography. Sources showing to confirm post. Carrite (talk) 16:28, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 01:19, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * • Gene93k (talk) 01:19, 9 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep. Substantial position in a national government, much like the article Attorney General of the United States, there is certainly a way to cover the man and his position appropriately. On that page (which includes a chronological list), every single individual who held that high title has an article. As I see no meaningful distinction between this one and those cited above, I think the aritcle should be kept. -- Lord Roem (talk) 21:54, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep and is it snowing yet?  GregJackP   Boomer!   03:33, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: The snow is happily falling. What's not accumulating is any content. Here's what the "article" says: Bharat Patel or Bharatkumar Patel, born 16 April 1952, was the Attorney General of Zimbabwe in March 2004 and May 2008. In July 2009 he was Public Prosecutor of Zimbabwe. That's it. That's all. Is it enough for an article? One might add that he's persona non grata in Canada (from the Canadian link provided) and the EU. (Actually I'm about to add the latter.) My Lord Roem, if I read him correctly, sees no meaningful distinction between an Attorney General of Zimbabwe and one of the US; but I think that this is a little harsh on most (though not all) US Attorneys General. -- Hoary (talk) 04:25, 11 August 2012 (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.