Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inamullah Khan (martial artist)


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 15:11, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Inamullah Khan (martial artist)

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I believe this article to be a biography of a nonexistent person, or at the very least horribly exaggerated. It has no reliable sources; furthermore, a google search on the person in question failed to return any credible proof of this man's existence. For the sake of thoroughness, I have included the full text of my relevant talk page post below. I believe I have fulfilled the utmost reasonable requirement of due diligence, and it now falls to the authors to prove the article's accuracy and verifiability.

From Talk:Inamullah Khan (martial artist):

I challenge the existence of Inamullah Khan (martial artist) and postulate that he is nothing more than Pakistani propaganda designed to express superiority and increase nationalism. I have fulfilled due diligence in my attempts to prove his existence by following, to the best of my ability, all the sources provided. The second source, the only one that actually works, is a poor quality, unreliable site hosted in a Pakistani domain name. I challenge its credibility. In addition, I have followed the first fifteen links of a Google search for "Inamullah Khan martial artist" and several relevant links in a Google search for "Inamullah Khan" in general. None of these efforts has produced any credible secondary sources. Many of the sites contain only information copied directly from Wikipedia. This article does not have a picture and neither does the relevant Facebook page about a public figure. Said page takes its information from Wikipedia, giving no other source or link. In short, there is no credible proof of this man's existence. Finally, this article has relatively few contributors (two that I can spot, one of whom, Mirdard, has contributed exclusively to this article). I have placed this article on the table at AfD as a potential hoax, along with my arguments. I have, out of courtesy, notified both major contributors on their user pages. Bronsonboy HQ 21:25, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions.  —Papaursa (talk) 03:14, 15 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete My search leads me to believe he's not a hoax. However, I also don't find supported evidence of notability. Papaursa (talk) 03:14, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. I recall looking into the subject some time ago, and do not believe this to be a hoax, but on the other hand the article does not reliably demonstrate notability. Janggeom (talk) 16:08, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete If this article had reliable sources (I couldn't find any) I think it might have a claim to notability. Astudent0 (talk) 16:37, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * All three of you touched upon my reasoning. Examined with common sense, it is not incredible that such a man might exist, but I found no reliable evidence for his prowess or notability. If you read the article, he seems to be too good to be true, and any person so reputedly notable would have a wealth of coverage that just isn't there. As such, perhaps not a "hoax", but rather a "tall tale". Whatever the case may be, he doesn't belong in an encyclopedia.Bronsonboy HQ 20:35, 19 May 2011 (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.