Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mahfuz Alam Beg


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:12, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Mahfuz Alam Beg

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The cited sources are passing mentions of his name, usually in lists, e.g. "... and many other freedom fighters" and "among those who participated in the fight in the region were ..." Searches of the usual Google types, EBSCO, HighBeam, JSTOR, Project MUSE, and Questia find him mentioned every December in the sentence "The collaborators [in the city of Barisal] surrendered to Nurul Islam Manjur, the then district Awami League secretary and organiser of liberation movement in Barisal, and Mahfuz Alam Beg, sub-sector commander, without any bloodshed on December 18 [two days after Pakistani forces surrendered in Dacca]." This extent of coverage does not meet WP:BIO or WP:SOLDIER. --Worldbruce (talk) 02:08, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - Looking through the Hindi sources, all of them give Beg only passing mention. The article contains a small amount of OR (I don't see in the sources that he was "Sub-sector Commander in Sector -9", nor that he "trained up men and women", for instance), and the sources do not clearly let the article overcome NPOV concerns. His membership in the so-called "hardcore of sergeants" (হার্ড কোর অব সার্জেন্টস) which is supposedly discussed in a book titled "সীমাহীন সমর" could lend notability, but I don't find any information about that. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:46, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, T. Canens (talk) 00:22, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment Anyone who feels there might be notability in Beg's connection to "hardcore of sergeants" should take note of Articles for deletion/Hard Core Sergeants. --Worldbruce (talk) 21:32, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete There is nothing to confirm notability or some of the information in the article. Sector commanders receive plenty of coverage which he has not received. Trying to find news articles or searching google book showed nothing to demonstrate notability.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 23:35, 9 February 2018 (UTC)


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