Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hazrat Wallar Baba


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The result was delete.  So Why  13:08, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Hazrat Wallar Baba

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Simply googling got me nothing but Wikipedia mirrors. Heck, I have had to turn Facebook upside down just to find the village in which this run-of-the-mill South Asian saint was buried. I was lucky enough that someone posted a G-Earth screenshot, saying it was Chajjar Syedna, so after some searching, lo and behold: 34.5124°N, 73.05236°W actually has a marker in G-Maps with مزارشریف (حضرت ولاڑبابا جی) or "Mazār Sharīf (Ḥaḍrat Wallaṛ Bābā Jī)". Considering that the village is so small that Google does not even name it and that I get zero unique non-wiki-related hits, even for the Urdu-script variant, I'd say that this "saint" fails WP:GNG by a mile. --HyperGaruda (talk) 06:15, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Simply not notable fails WP:GNG.  Greenbörg  (talk)  17:18, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails GNG. —  InsertCleverPhraseHere  09:38, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  So Why  15:39, 16 July 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  So Why  11:12, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as yet another article about an obscure South Asian religious figure created in good faith by fans. The article bears all the hallmarks, from the lack of sources outside of Wikipedia mirrors down to quaint claims of notability based on purported local shrines/commemorations. This has become so common over the past five years or so that the phenomenon almost deserves its own Wikipedia essay. MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:25, 2 August 2017 (UTC)


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