Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hardial Bains


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The result was   keep. Nomination withdrawn, no delete votes (non-admin closure) Edgepedia (talk) 12:00, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Hardial Bains

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Fails the notability criteria for politicians. Probably fails the general notability criteria. — CharlieEchoTango  — 05:47, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Bains played an important role on the left in Ireland in the 1960s. For years the group he founded, the Internationalists, stimulated political debate there, was influential in student movements and protests and led directly or indirectly to the setting up of other organizations. He founded the Hindustani Ghadar Party (HGP) in the late sixties and the HGP(OIMLA) in the seventies. He was also the founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (M-L), Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago, Communist Party of Ireland (M-L) and the Communist Ghadar Party of India. This article was created back in 2006, has had contributions from several dozen editors and AFAIAA has never been the subject of a deletion request, so I'm very surprised at this move. Hohenloh + 08:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Article briefly mentions books by Bains. These alone probably establish notability:
 * Hardial Bains. The Question is Really One of Word and Deed (pamphlet), Progressive Cultural Association, 1997. ISBN 978-0953008308.
 * Hardial Bains. The Call of the Martyrs: On the Crisis in India and the Present Situation in the Punjab. National Publications Centre, 1985. ISBN 978-0888031334.
 * Hardial Bains. Communism 1989-1991, Ideological Studies Centre, 1991.
 * ..... there are others too.
 * Books about HB include:
 * Politicians in Ontario, Including: John Stachow, Hardial Bains, Greg Kells, Ian Orenstein, Paul Fromm (Activist), Michael Baldasaro, John Steele. Onta by Hephaestus Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1242615597.
 * Canadian Communists, Including: Sandra L. Smith, Hardial Bains, Fred Rose (Politician), Margaret Fairley, Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, J. B. Salsberg, A. by Hephaestus Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1242629198.
 * I don't know if Leninism.org is an approved source, but since it describes Bains as a "charlatan" that probably makes him notable as a communist figure big enough to be worth attacking:
 * Ben Seattle. In memory of a charlatan. 5 April 1998. http://www.leninism.org/stream/96/charlatan.htm
 * CBC Digital Archives has 'Marxist-Leninists seek mass appeal', broadcast 3 Feb 1980. http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/parties_leaders/clips/17078/
 * Modern Communism has a series of 3 articles on HB's political legacy. http://www.modern-communism.ca/mc33003.htm.
 * That's probably enough to demonstrate notability? Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:12, 3 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep as a federal party leader for 27 years, he is notable. 117Avenue (talk) 13:23, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination per Chiswick Chap (WP:GNG). 117Avenue, this is not what WP:POLITICIAN says. — CharlieEchoTango  — 16:56, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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