Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maung Maung Gyi (politician)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:55, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Maung Maung Gyi (politician)

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I was unable to verify his WP:NOTABILITY. There was a scholar born 20 years later, which makes it more difficult. This has been unsourced for 10 years; hopefully we can now establish if it meets criteria for inclusion. Boleyn (talk) 21:22, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete Total lack of sources. Beyond that, none of the statements in the article come close to asserting notability. I guess if he had been in key planning sessions with Nehru and Gandhi it would probably indicate he was notable, if we had sources on these key sessions. I guess a very friendly reading of the article could suggest that this is what it is saying. However having dealt with how after the fact everyone is said to have been in marches with Martin Luther King Jr. or have opened their house to the underground railroad, I want to see sources before giving it any basis in fact. Even when we do find that someone had marched in the Civil Rights Movement, at times we find they were in one march against housing segregation in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. However even if they were walking across Selma Bridge with MLK or coming down the streets of Alabama when Bull Connor's agents let loose packs of dogs, this is not alone going to make them notable. The spontaneous nature of some of these incidents will make it possible to argue that people who started lots of protests and sit downs are notable, at least if there are sources to show this. In the same way, if this person was an organizer in protests in Burma or India, that might make him notable, but we lack any sources for this, and have for a long time, so we should delete the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:00, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:54, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Completely unsourced biography, whose only discernible claim of notability is that he worked with other people (but notability is WP:NOTINHERITED, so that doesn't count for much by itself.) It might be possible to write a substantive and properly sourced article about him which made a real claim of notability — I'm not familiar enough with Burmese history to assess that one way or the other — but nothing claimed in this version is strong enough to give him the benefit of the doubt. Delete, without prejudice against recreation if somebody can do better in the future. Bearcat (talk) 17:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


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