Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Rafidison


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn, all votes to keep J04n(talk page) 01:44, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Martin Rafidison

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What we have here is a former member of the National Assembly of Madagascar which would meet NPOLITICIAN if we could verify it but is now an unreferenced BLP. I did, what I consider to be, an exhaustive web search and found nothing but Wiki-mirrors. The original external link no longer works and even checked the Way Back Machine with no luck. If we are going to require that all BLPs have sources this needs to be deleted. I will happily withdraw this nomination if a source is located. J04n(talk page) 20:15, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * He's noted here as part of a delegation. Describes him as an MP representing Morombe which is consistent with what our entry says. FloridaArmy (talk) 20:25, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per Florida Army's link, but work definitely needs to be done. South Nashua (talk) 22:07, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Strong keep This is a huge pass of the notability guidelines for politicians. Madagascar is a major country, and we would keep him even if he was in the legislature of the much less importannt by any measure Mauritius. I am confident more sources exist in either Malagasy or French, actually probably both. One might have to peruse libraries in Madagascar to find such sources. I would like to see the article state which dates he served in the National Assembly, and even who preceded and succeeded him. However Wikipedia is a work in progress, and we do not throw out articles because we cannot currently get them to have a minimal amount of useful information. As long as there is enough sourcing to verify that someone was in fact part of a national assembly, we keep the article. We Even keep the article if an indepth search reveals we will probably only even have their name appearing on one listing of the members of the national assembly of that place. For the same reasons we keep articles on kings for whom we know little more than their name, at least as long as their being real historical figures can be verrified, and in some cases even when the authenticity of the information on them is in dispute.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:01, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - Member of the National Assembly. Needs to be expanded, but this one's easy. Scanlan (talk) 00:56, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination: agree with everything said above, now that there is a source to verify the page it should be kept. Thank you J04n(talk page) 14:50, 11 December 2017 (UTC)


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