Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Riasat Ali


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The result was delete. czar 04:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Riasat Ali

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An apparent BLP about a figure in cricket and politics who does not appear to satisfy WP:NCRIC or WP:NPOL. The best argument for notability I can come up with is that he satisfies NPOL by having held state/province–wide office by being general secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee. Except that (1) I cannot find a single source to verify that claim; and (2) even assuming it is true, I am skeptical that a state-level party official counts as notable by this standard.

As for the cricket arguments, he turns up as an also-ran in this article and a few carbon copies of it about the fallout from the Lodha Committee. He never played professional cricket, as far as I know. Rather, he had various positions in the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association. I'm not sure how to treat a sport official under NCRIC—I'm tempted to view notability for sport officials as analogous to notability for politicians. In which case, as a state-level cricket official, he might be notable, but I cannot find enough WP:SIGCOV to back that up.

Flagging that I just moved the article from "Riasatali", which seemed incorrect given how the name is spelled in the article. It's a clear autobio; creator is indef blocked. Tagged for notability since 2013; PROD—quite reasonably—declined in 2016. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 00:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 00:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete I don't think NPOL applies for non-governmental offices like party positions and cricket associations, that too for a state unit. We can only go by GNG, on which the subject seems to fail. --Ab207 (talk) 20:01, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. StickyWicket (talk) 22:32, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - zero evidence of notability Spiderone  13:28, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


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