Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naushabah Khan


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The result was delete. Guerillero Parlez Moi 22:24, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Naushabah Khan

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Poorly formatted and semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a political figure, not properly sourced as passing WP:NPOL. The notability claims here are that she's a local authority councillor and an unsuccessful candidate for election to Westminster -- but neither of those are "inherently" notable roles that guarantee Wikipedia articles: local authority councillors are notable only if they can credibly claim to have special nationalized significance that would make them markedly more notable than most other local authority councillors, and unelected candidates get to have Wikipedia articles only if they were already notable enough to have Wikipedia articles for other reasons anyway. While there's a very, very long list of "references" here, they're all just contextlessly listed in the references section without actually being used to footnote any of the body content, and they mostly aren't proper support for notability anyway -- they represent a mixture of primary sources that aren't support for notability at all (e.g. her own alumni profile on the self-published website of her own alma mater, her contributor profile on the self-published website of an organization that she's written content for), glancing namechecks of her existence as a provider of soundbite in coverage of other things, and purely run of the mill local election coverage in local media where coverage of local elections is merely expected. Essentially, the creator just listed every web page they could find that had Naushabah Khan's name in it at all, without regard to whether it was WP:GNG-worthy media coverage about her or not. None of the sourcing here is adequate, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her sourcing from having to be better. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and England. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 17:19, 2 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Leaning keep Here's why:
 * https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/medway-councillor-in-the-us-115285/ (about her, includes interviews)
 * https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-candidate-upset-by-ukip-rhetoric-0vk609hv9cn (paywall only let me read the first page but seems to be completely about her and done indepedently)
 * https://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/immigration-is-a-proxy-for-27012/ (brief, but is a news report that is about her and the London Mayor)
 * https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labour-s-england-problem quotes her book, it's brief
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/britains-uk-independence-party-expected-to-win-crucial-vote-before-general-election/2014/11/19/8a4bd826-6ff8-11e4-a2c2-478179fd0489_story.html has 5 sentences
 * Seems to suggest she is notable. CT55555 (talk) 22:06, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 19:20, 9 June 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:39, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, and from what I have found in the WP Library, she is an author of an essay in the book Labour's Identity Crisis: England and the Politics of Patriotism, ed. Tristram Hunt, the author of the Spectator article. There is brief commentary about and a quote from her essay in a 2016 book review by The Guardian (via Gale). The 2014 WaPo article (also available via Gale) is focused on the UKIP expected win, and briefly introduces her and quotes her at the end of the article. In 2014, the Sunday Times (via Gale) in an article about the election generally, appreciated her campaign slogan but also expected her to lose. In 2015, the London Standard (via Gale) in an article generally about the election, briefly mentions her with "works in public affairs in London and whose hobbies include kick-boxing, is standing again" as context. There is PR consultant and keen kickboxer Naushabah Khan selected as Labour party candidate in Rochester and Strood (Kent Online, 2013), but it is based on an interview, although there is independent content about her, her education, and career. The paywalled Times article is also available via Gale, but does not continue much past the preview beyond noting "Ukip is on course to win" and referencing a past comment by Nigel Farage. ProQuest offers more election coverage where she is mentioned, including with kickboxing puns, but I am not finding in-depth, secondary coverage to support WP:GNG/WP:BASIC, WP:NPOL, or WP:AUTHOR. Beccaynr (talk) 03:27, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Weak Delete best sources are pointed out by CT55555, everything else was just mentions or quotations. Sources are weak to keep a politicians that was not elected. Zeddedm (talk) 03:46, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:SIGCOV and WP:NAUTHOR per the convincing source analysis by Beccaynr.4meter4 (talk) 17:20, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


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