Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Feroz Kabir Khan


 * 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 delete. Speedy delete. Or rather, I speedy closed it, didn't CSD it. Just clearing that up. Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :D  04:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Feroz Kabir Khan

 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

WP:Notability (person)? The article is about its author, who has also added a link to the article to the Doctor of Letters article. There are no Google hits for the person himself. At first I thought the degree itself might be adequate to satisfy the notability guideline once someone supplied a citation, but then I wondered whether the school itself is notable enough for degrees conferred by it to render their recipients notable. I Googled "st thomas a becket university" and found very few hits. All of them were references to an entity affiliated with the university or a person with a degree from there; none was about the university. Also, being the youngest person to have held a particular position, at least unless that position is itself extremely remarkable, isn't notable. —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions.   -- —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:07, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.   -- —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:07, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Despite various "claims" to notability, this is not a notable subject and appears to be the author writing about himself (User:Ferozkkhan). |► ϋrбan яeneωaℓ  •  TALK  ◄| 19:45, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - A hoax? Certainly no RS.  Springnuts (talk) 23:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: A hoax or fails WP:BIO. Schuym1 (talk) 01:22, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. No proof of existence, really, let alone notability. "St.Thomas A Beckett" was a name proposed at one time for the Darwin college at the University of Kent. Hoax, or total imaginary peacock. Drmies (talk) 04:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Much as I would love this to be true, I am sorry to say that it appears to be (or at least contain) aWP:HOAX. St Thomas a Becket University either does not exist or is mere degree mill.  The univerities at Canterbury are University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University.  David Livingstone Missionary Foundation of Tulsa appears to exist (as does a similar one of Canada), but has no website that I can find.  It appears to have a humanitarian operation in the Philippines, but I could not see anything about Bangladesh (though I may have missed it).  As a missionary foundation, I would have expected it to be promoting Christianity, something that the subject, as a Muslim, would obviously be unable to do.  Conceivably, the subject directs an aid programme in Bangladesh, but it all looks very odd indeed.  Peterkingiron (talk) 14:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Update The author left this link in the article: http://wesleysynod.homestead.com/page2universtities.html. Methinks it doth protest too much: they insist that it's both a college and a university, and "NO DEGREE CAN BE JUST BROUGHT, WE WILL NOT SELL ANY DEGREE OR JUST ISSUE THE CERTIFICATE ...!" I doubt the deans at Cambridge feel it necessary to make this observation on their website. More to the point, they indicate that in their 15 years of existence they've had "hundreds of students." I hesitate to acknowledge the notability of an honorary degree awarded by this school, let alone the inherited notability of a recipient of such a degree, and especially when it was written in the form of a vanity article. —Largo Plazo (talk) 20:33, 22 January 2009 (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.