Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles Kalemba


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  14:11, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Charles Kalemba

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Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a person not properly sourced as passing WP:NPOL. The notability claim is that he's chief executive officer of a city council, which is not an "inherently" notable role under NPOL #2 -- but the footnotes are a deadlinked primary source and a single hit of deadlinked media coverage in the context of visiting his city's American sister city, which means one isn't support for notability at all and the other isn't enough to vault him over the bar all by itself. The article has also existed for a full decade without ever having any other sourcing added to bolster his notability. To be fair, a Google search for other sources brings up hits for a person of the same name who is now Malawi's Commissioner for Disaster and Management Affairs, but they're glancing namechecks of his existence as a provider of soundbite in coverage of disasters rather than substantive coverage about him, and they don't actually verify whether he's the same person as this or a different person who merely happens to have the same name. So I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with much better access to archived African media than I've got can find enough improved coverage to salvage it, but nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be referenced considerably better than this. Bearcat (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Africa. Bearcat (talk) 13:15, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete not enough sourcing to justify an article on a city council leader.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:30, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete: Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. Sal2100 (talk) 19:29, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.Mccapra (talk) 21:28, 27 April 2022 (UTC)


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