Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muslim Students' Organization of India


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The result was   delete. &mdash;Darkwind (talk) 07:43, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Muslim Students' Organization of India

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There is only one reliable sourced on this organization, consisting of only four sentences. I spent more than a week trying to find anything else and couldn't. While sources can be found on separate, unrelated Muslim student bodies at Indian universities, this one turned up nothing. Additionally, the article was created by a now indefinitely blocked sockpuppet account with a history of creating articles on non-notable subjects; the puppetmaster account, which is run by representatives of this org, created a number of sock accounts to avoid detection while creating articles of this nature during its long blocks. Not only does the article fail WP:ORG and even WP:GNG, but there also seems to be a COI problem of creating articles solely to generate online buzz. MezzoMezzo (talk) 06:15, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. Note that even the webpage of the organization is dead and it's quite possible that the org is now defunct . Additionally, given the generic nature of the organization's name, we run the risk of creating a chimeric beast of an article unless we can find at least a few independent sources that cover it in depth. Abecedare (talk) 07:09, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * This report says that the group was active at least in November 2011. But Google search is giving mixed results. It happens so that Students Islamic Movement of India was also formed in 1977 at Aligarh, where this subject organization is also claimed to have been formed. §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 10:55, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The SIMI match is interesting. I wonder if it is because MSO is the same org (unlikely, IMO), or because MSO split off at some point but claims rights to those roots (quite possible), or ... (we simply don't have enough reliable sources to nail down such issues, and are left to guess to fill in the picture). The org does seem alive per the news item/press release located by Shawn. So striking that bit of my speculation above. Abecedare (talk) 18:37, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom, per Abecedare, and my own experiences with these accounts. Luke no 94  (tell Luke off here) 08:37, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * If the organization is so moribund, and WP:RS so impossible to find, why does Google News reveal this hit from August 17 of this year? Wait, I see the news item is actually attributed to "Shujaat Ali Quadri ,National Secretary, MSO of India" at the bottom. So this is in fact some kind of news release? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 12:27, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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