Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri (2nd nomination)


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 12:47, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri
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Can't see the person's notability per WP:BIO. Authoring a few little-known books? Having translated Quran? Having students who published books?  kashmiri TALK  21:17, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. HyperGaruda (talk) 06:06, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete The person doesn't appear to be notable as a figure with a legacy in South Asian religious studies. MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:21, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  18:38, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Googled for "abdul qadeer siddiqui" -wikipedia; 0 news hits and found only 1 short mention in a book (... Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui, the head of the Islamic Studies Department at the Osmania University, ...) Trying "abdul qadir siddiqui" got me more hits, including more junk hits but also this this (Maulana Abdul Qadir Siddiqui, formerly Professor of Theology in the Osmania University, is not only a practical Sufi, but also a noted thinker. Meyar-al-Kalam (The Standard of Kalam) and the Hikamte-a-Islamia (The Philosophy of Islam) are his original contributions to Islamic thought (...?)) and this snippet view (... Moulvi Abdul Qadir Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Theology and Religion in the Osmania University, ...). Really pushing the "significant coverage" criterium here, but who knows what that second source has to tell beyond the snippet view. - HyperGaruda (talk) 07:36, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep per the second source found by HaperGaruda. That alone does not establish notability, but calling him a "noted thinker" in an English-language publication suggests to me that there are probably other (undigitized, Urdu-language) sources covering him.  --Cerebellum (talk) 00:50, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I believe two cursory mentions in two 1940s books, with no single mention afterwards, are rather a strong indication of lack of notability. If that person was indeed a notable scholar, he would have been the subject of many publications, in India and abroad, in the half a century passed since his death. Note that WP:NPERSON explicitely requires significant coverage.  kashmiri TALK  21:46, 14 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep per Source
 * You might like to know that that source specifically states "Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online" - HyperGaruda (talk) 19:18, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:29, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete for now perhaps as I would've also said reluctant keep at this time but there's simply nothing to suggest better improvement which the article seriously needs. SwisterTwister   talk  07:33, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete dues to lack of coverage in reliable sources. The article links to a few websites, but the ones that aren't dead links are not reliable sources. The only GBooks hits seem to be Wikipedia mirrors. Edward321 (talk) 05:01, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - simply not enough in-depth coverage from reliable sources to show notability. For someone who other sources quote as being a "noted thinker" - a few hits on Scholar (if it is the same person), with Zero citations.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:55, 23 November 2015 (UTC)


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