Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mufti Kifayatullah Dehlavi


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The result was   no consensus.  Sandstein  17:24, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Mufti Kifayatullah Dehlavi

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Perhaps someone else can find substantial RS refs for this person; I cannot. Zero refs; tagged for that problem for 3 years. Epeefleche (talk) 19:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
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 * Provisional keep. Currently this is a potentially good article with plenty of almost certainly true claims to notability (as a religious leader, the author of a textbook on Islam that is still widely used, and a politician at least), but rather stymied by the complete lack of references and carelessness with linking. I have found one very substantial potentially good source, which may indeed have been used by the article's original author. It's apparently a translation of a biographical article in Urdu, intended for use with English translations of the subject's textbook on Islam. However, it just seems to be floating around the Net as a PDF, so I don't know quite how to determine its reliability. His role in founding the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind seems to be confirmed on the organisation's own website, though under a different version of his name - a very definite problem here, as the three-word article title seems to be excerpted from a sixteen-word name, including honorifics (for instance, "Mufti" for certain and possibly "Kifayatullah") and patronymics, and the apparent family name "Dehlavi" could instead be just a toponym ("of Delhi"). Also, Urdu (or Hindi or Arabic) to English transcription is something of a minefield - for instance, "Dehlavi" can also appear as "Dehlvi" or "Dahlawi". I therefore seriously suspect that my lack of success in finding references to him in sources from his lifetime is that I simply haven't been able to work out what those sources would have called him. More work obviously needed, though I doubt I have either the time or the expertise to do it. PWilkinson (talk) 19:36, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
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 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 00:46, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Bryce  ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 01:33, 2 January 2012 (UTC)


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