Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki


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The result was   keep. ff m  18:10, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki

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No sources for notability at all. While I am sure he is a nice person, it seems somebody just made a fan page for their favorite religious preacher. This happens very frequently on Wikipedia with articles on Muslim religious figures and it isn't really a good basis for an article. MezzoMezzo (talk) 04:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Despite the guy's remarkably long name, he's not at all notable, as far as I can see. Nyttend (talk) 15:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Short googling shows plenty of sources for him. Here's a nice background article, where he's called as a spiritual leader of Sufi's. As our article Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki notes, he was influential enough that another cleric wrote a book attacking his writings. This calls him "the most highly acclaimed and respected scholar (Shaykh) in Makkah (Mecca)." . A rather hagiographic obituary. This should already be enough to satisfy WP:BIO and WP:GNG, and the vast majority of the sources must be in Arabic. An interesting side question is whether his position as a teacher in the Holy Mosque in Mecca would be sufficiently notable alone... – Sadalmelik ☎ 19:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Is this a copy of the article in Wikipedia or the other way around? At least there is something to roll-back if the current version is deemed copyvio. – Sadalmelik ☎ 19:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep but this article is indeed written rather fanboyish. The person is a good subject for a WP article, but the article itself is a mess. Paranormal Skeptic (talk) 20:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


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