Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inayat Karim


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 19:46, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Inayat Karim

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Doubtless notable to those who admire or love the gentleman I can see no proper notability nor verifiability for him.

So far this article has been the most successful of a series of similarly (yet differently) named articles on the gentleman, all introduced by various sockpuppets, now blocked, (see here) and all spamming an eponymous medical centre. All so far have been Conflicts of Interest

It is up to us to determine whether the gentleman is suitable for an article here. I do not believe that he is. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 22:41, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions.  -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk  23:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. I can make neither head nor tail of this.  It says he was "awarded with Nishan-e-khidmat for his role in the 1960 war."  I can't quite figure out what that is, but if it's something like the equivalent of the medal of honor that would establish notability.  There seems to be a medical center named after him  but it doesn't look like much (there's a picture of it in the article but no text).  The original author is an indef-blocked sock, so we can't really ask him for references.  All of that said, it seems like there might be something here if someone could just get a reference, but with the article as is, I don't even know where to look.  Can anyone find anything on this guy? Cool3 (talk) 23:26, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I checked Google Books, but it only turned up the name of a Bangladeshi foreign secretary and a few other unrelated hits. Regular Google is similarly unhelpful. The only thing I can discern is the medical center thing, which doesn't establish notability in itself. Google News was similarly unhelpful, and LexisNexis didn't turn up any news sources, either. I'd say delete on this basis (no notability). Also, might wanna salt it -- the article's been A7'd three times.  Graymornings (talk) 05:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I have tried to discover what Nishan-e-khidmat is. It has very few traces in Google which tends to suggest that it is not a significant award, at least when sought in English script.  It appears to be a local annual award of a particular Islamic community, though I am happy to be corrected.  Fiddle Faddle (talk) 19:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * That helps very much. Unless someone find evidence to the contrary about nishan-e-khidmat, I am now switching to delete. Cool3 (talk) 19:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete for failure to establish notability. Eddie.willers (talk) 02:53, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no reliable sources offered or found in searching. -- Whpq (talk) 12:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


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