Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hamid Bashani


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  06:55, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Hamid Bashani

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WP:BLP of a lawyer and television host, not referenced to enough reliable source coverage in real media to get him over WP:GNG. As always, people are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist -- the notability test is the degree to which the person's work has or has not been the subject of journalism about him, written by other people in sources he is not directly affiliated with. But two of the three footnotes here are his own self-published law office website and a Q&A interview in which he's answering questions in the first person, which are not notability-supporting sources -- and the only one that's a real reliable source is also just quoting his opinions on a political issue rather than covering him in the context of being a television host, which means it's not a notability-clinching source all by itself if it's the best you've got. He has to show a lot more quality sources than this in order to qualify for a Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 18:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete not enough reliable non trivial coverage in sources. This becomes WP:PROMOTIONAL with mainly primary sources. Wm335td (talk) 19:17, 2 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep Many unaffiliated sources have mentioned him, listed a few below. Integrated them into the article.

https://www.sify.com/news/kashmiri-pandits-real-sons-of-soil-hamid-bashani-news-international-sgor0Ocbefagj.html

https://solidarity-us.org/atc/101/p707/

https://freepresskashmir.com/2019/07/02/across-the-loc-and-the-oceans-first-movers-the-mirpuris/


 * Blogs aren't support for notability, and Q&A interviews in which the person is the speaker aren't support for notability. To support his notability, a source has to represent journalism being done about him in the third person by a real media outlet — but the only one of those three sources that's actually from a real newspaper just briefly mentions Hamid Bashani's name in one sentence in the process of being fundamentally about something else, which means it is not about Hamid Bashani for the purposes of establishing his notability. Bearcat (talk) 08:16, 6 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per lack of reliable sources as we'd need for any BLP, but also as failing my standards for lawyers. Bearian (talk) 22:45, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with Bearcat and Bearian.NotButtigieg (talk) 19:55, 8 January 2020 (UTC)


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