Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gul Mohamad Zhowandai


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The result was   keep. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:32, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Gul Mohamad Zhowandai

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Does not meet general notability requirements and lacks multiple reliable secondary sources. After nearly one year of a request for additional references and sources, no effort has been made to improve the article. Superman7515 (talk) 18:59, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete I can't find any sources even mentioning this individual. Candleabracadabra (talk) 03:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep per Geo. Candleabracadabra (talk) 21:03, 28 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep -- I however did find references that referred to him. I included one in the article.  I urge a little slack here.  If the guy was one of the leading poets in a land with widespread illiteracy then he is important.  Poems can be enjoyed even by the illiterate.  Illiterate people enjoy have poems read aloud.  Illiterate people will memorize their favorite poems, word for word.
 * I accept that the guy was a leading poet, novelist, editor, and that further searching will provide additional substantiation for this. Remember, there is no standard transliteration scheme for Pashtu or Dari, so his name could be transliterated a dozen different ways.  Geo Swan (talk) 20:01, 28 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - That is the only reference I was able to find when doing my WP:BEFORE search, but it fails to meet the "significant coverage" aspect of WP:N that states "significant coverage is more than a trivial mention" as that one sentence is the only mention of Zhowandai in the entire book. As well as the fact WP:N states widespread coverage from multiple sources, the only source found in the Google Books search is the book now referenced and a book that states it is compiled from Wikipedia articles, which would not be acceptable as an article can't source back to itself, and there are no results found when a Google News archive search is performed of his name as typed and multiple variations I tried myself in a good faith effort to locate some news on this individual. Superman7515 (talk) 23:19, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
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