Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M. A. Sattar Bhuiyan


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:44, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

M. A. Sattar Bhuiyan

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The claim is that he was notable as a third-level administrative division party leader, as an unsuccessful candidate for Parliament, as a commissioner for Dhaka's 48th ward, and as acting mayor of the city. It's true that for major cities, there is a tendency to keep city councillors, and mayors have usually survived AfD, according to explanatory supplement WP:POLOUTCOMES. However he was at most acting mayor (typically in Bangladesh, a mayor appoints an acting mayor when they will be out of town). His time in government fails verifiability, so we don't know if he did anything or how long he was acting mayor (or of course if any of it is true).

90% of the article is unverified. The cited sources are: (1) a newspaper article that mentions him as the father of Ahsan Habib Bhuiyan, and (2) Wikipedia article Gojmohal Tannery High School (which circularly cites this Wikipedia article). Searches, including by Bengali-script name, of the usual Google types, EBSCO, HighBeam, JSTOR, Project Muse, ProQuest, and Questia found: an elections results listing that confirms he lost a bid for the Noakhali-2 seat in 1996, and a passing mention of his being one of several people injured when protesters clashed with police. (Raw results also include a different MA Sattar Bhuiyan, Chairman of the Bangladesh Finished Leather and Leather Goods Exporters Association (BFLLEA), who was still alive in 2013.) Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:POLITICIAN. Worldbruce (talk) 00:16, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 00:18, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 00:18, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Even for major world cities on the order of Dhaka, we still only keep mayors or city councillors if they can be referenced to adequate reliable source coverage about their work in those roles — we do not hand them an automatic "no sourcing required" freebie just because they exist, but require them to be the subject of substantive reliable source coverage. But there's no evidence of reliable source coverage being shown at all — even the one source present here was written by his son, and just mentions Sattar's existence without being about him. (I've already stripped the WP:CIRCULAR "reference" to another Wikipedia article, for the record.) That's not even close to good enough. Bearcat (talk) 21:27, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 02:06, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete failed candidates are not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:30, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. North America1000 04:53, 5 November 2017 (UTC)


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