Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rafiqul Alam (politician)


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The result was delete --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:40, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Rafiqul Alam (politician)

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Mayor of a small area. Couldn't establish that he meets WP:POLITICIAN or WP:GNG. Sending WP:APPNOTE to, ,. Boleyn (talk) 10:50, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. GSS  (talk) 12:38, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. GSS  (talk) 12:38, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. Khagrachhari Upazila, of which the town is presumably a part, only has a population of 61,000, which isn't enough for inherent notability for a mayor even if they all lived in the town. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:03, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep Clearly notable. Curro2 (talk) 16:49, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you clarify your thinking on this? If your reaction was based on a quick Google search, be aware that there are other Rafiqul Alams, even other ones who are politicians. The subject of this article is an independent who won re-election as town mayor. The cited coverage consists of his name in a list of 323 mayors elected across Bangladesh. Beyond that I've found occasional passing mentions of the "mayor was in attendance" variety. If you've found something substantive, I'm sure we'd all like to use it to improve the article. Worldbruce (talk) 18:40, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * We cannot rely on English language searches for Bengali-related articles. The English speaking world's coverage of Bangladesh is limited. It's pretty much BDLive, Prothom Alo, and the Tribune. You have to evaluate based on Bengali sources, many of which are not online even when there is coverage. There is less of a problem with Urdu, Pashto, and Hindu sources but we have the same problem there. Curro2 (talk) 18:57, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * , you wrote that he is 'clearly notable'. How is he clearly notable? What parts of WP:NOTABILITY guidelines does he meet? It's of course true that the best sources won't be in English, or necessarily on the Internet, but that doesn't answer whether this guy is notable. Boleyn (talk) 19:03, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * The two largest parties, Awami and BNP, which dominate politics in Bangladesh, worked together to try to unseat him and failed. He basically wants Chittagong Hills to break off and run itself. Also they are still suing him (can't find a source for this). Curro2 (talk) 19:27, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm sure if people search they can find more on him but at this point I don't care enough to go look. Bangladesh is outside of my general area of interest. Paging Bangladeshi WikiProject members... Delete, don't delete, either way is fine. Curro2 (talk) 19:33, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment Pinging to above comment. Boleyn (talk) 18:43, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  16:17, 13 January 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - Seemingly unlikely to better satisfy the politicians notability guidelines. SwisterTwister   talk  06:22, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  19:03, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice should evidence of non-trivial coverage from reliable publications come forward at a later date. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 00:52, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge to Khagrachhari Sadar Upazila. (Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the town he's a mayor of, but this is the next largest political unit. It would be reasonable for it to mention the town and the name of its mayor.) Further to Necrothesp's observation, the mayor received 10,000 votes in a town with a population under 40,000. This does not satisfy WP:POLITICIAN #1.


 * To the original routine coverage, consisting of his name in a list of 323 mayors elected across Bangladesh, Curro added one more substantive article and a couple passing mentions (such as a sentence when his nomination paperwork was filed). For those not fluent in Bengali, the gist of the longer piece it is that the mayor bought a plot of land, and there was a dispute about whether a shanty was on the land he bought or on adjacent land belonging to a Buddhist monastery. The footnotes for [[WP:POLITICIAN] #2 advise that, "A politician who has received 'significant press coverage' has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles." Searches of the usual Google types, HighBeam, and ProQuest failed to find coverage that, taken together, would satisfy this point.


 * The mayor may become notable in the future if more is written about him or if he enters national politics, but at this time he does not merit a stand alone article. Worldbruce (talk) 19:32, 26 January 2016 (UTC)


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