Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheikh Muhammad Rashid Bilal


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:03, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Sheikh Muhammad Rashid Bilal

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Per WP:BIO and WP:VERIFY, no reliable sources and I couldn't find any sources about him or about his role or works, the refs in article are interviews and notes without links, the book in refs has invalid ISBN. Ibrahim.ID ✪ 21:02, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * there is no article for this person in Amharic Wikipedia (Ethiopia's language) and it wasn't created before since 2010, that is strange because if this person is famous in Ethiopia (as article claims) why nobody create it in Amharic Wikipedia yet? --Ibrahim.ID ✪ 17:22, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Perhaps more relevant, is that there is no interwiki link to an article about this subject on the Oromo-language Wikipedia (as the subject was Oromo). I would guess the article would've been more likely to have appeared there, and/or easier to establish notability there, than in the Amharic language (if not in both).  (If it does exist, then I am not sure how to search for it there, as the spelling is probably different.) -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 19:22, 6 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 21:08, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 21:08, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethiopia-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 21:08, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

''' Very Weak Keep. ''' In this case the primary sources (oral history) may be all there is on the subject, but on their own I don't think they establish notability. Comment: The ISBN does appear to be valid (ISBN 9783825856717). However, the context in which Muhammad Rashid is mentioned, is relating the oral history about someone else (at whose shrine Muhammad Rashid is the imam). I can only assume that it's the same Muhammad Rashid as the subject of this article. Furthermore, it doesn't really seem to have anything to do with the sentence that cites this source. I'm not sure this book citation adds up to making the subject notable (again, assuming it's the same subject). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:49, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Changing to very weak delete. I stand by my previous comments regarding oral history, however I did not remember that I had already raised the issue of primary sources back in 2011, on the article's talk page.  About 5 years ago an anonymous user removed the maintenance tags, without explanation.  If no one has come along in over 8.5 years to improve things I have to assume that no improvements are forthcoming. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 19:22, 6 April 2020 (UTC)


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