Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sabur Khan


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:07, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Sabur Khan

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After cleaning the article and believing the article could be wikified, I have realized that the article reads like a resumé rather than a biographical article. The sources never mention the subject aside from this reference which the subject wrote. As you can see from the page's history, the article has been trimmed multiple times. Additionally, the author seems to be a SPA, considering that this article is nearly all the user has edited. I received nothing useful with search engine results and Google News. I also want to mention that the author moved the AfC submission themselves to article space here after multiple declines. SwisterTwister  talk  19:07, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * As one of the people who tried to "trim" the article (a polite way of saying "I tried to removed puffery from an article that was clearly written by someone with ties to the subject," I have to agree. I'm not sure there's any way to save the article. Queenmomcat (talk) 20:32, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I still believe this article can be Wikified. The article was categorized well in Wikipedia and those categories reflects the fact that this article has its need in Wikipedia. It just needs further furnishing.  Shah - Al - Mamun  ( talk )  07:49, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Wikify I agree the article has been written like a resumé and needs to be Wikified (if possible)! -- Tito Dutta  ✉  13:19, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete This article reads like a CV even when it was heavily trimmed down, and now that someone has replaced a large amount of the original content its even worse. Of the 26 references, 1-7 are primary, 8 is blogspot (not reliable), 9 is a directory type site, 10 also blogspot, 11 doesn’t mention him from what I can see, 12 is primary, 13-15 are wiki articles (circular), 16-17 are primary, 18 is a broken link but from the url it seems to be primary and finally 19-26 are all primary sources. There is not one independent reliable reference and a Google search seems to show why, there aren’t any. This person is not notable and most of the article content is not relevant or suitable for an encyclopedia. At the very least it needs to very reduced to a stub and properly referenced per BLP guidelines. Sarahj2107 (talk) 22:01, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Obvious spam &mdash; although in the article's favour, the North Korean-style self-glorification did provide some amusement. This is a person who is in desperate need of validation. --Teemu Leisti (talk) 07:56, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.