Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Mohammed Hameeduddin Sharafi


 * 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. The preponderance of opinion is that despite this person appearing to be of interest, we don't have the proper sources. Note: the immediately prior close by 24.228.114.100 was me, by accident, not realizing I wasn't logged in. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:08, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Syed Mohammed Hameeduddin Sharafi

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Frankly I almost PRODed this because it seems applicable considering my searches found nothing better aside from actually recovering the first listed source here. So unless this can be better improved from familiar sources and areas, there's nothing to suggest keeping this currently questionable notable. It's also worth noting this was first nominated in 2006 at Articles for deletion/Dr Syed Mohammed Hameeduddin Sharafi. Notifying the only still noticeably active AfDers and. SwisterTwister  talk  08:40, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep At the time my main concern was copyvio. Since this was later dismissed and doing additional web research, I think we should keep the article and shorten its name to Hameeduddin Sharfi. By my best of research he is a noted scholar of islam in the Indian media. gidonb (talk) 11:54, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Lean delete Neutral, but pinging in hopes he can look for Urdu sources.--Jahaza (talk) 14:53, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sources --Jahaza (talk) 16:00, 7 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment I believe that the relevant search term for this person is Hameeduddin Sharfi: gidonb (talk) 15:42, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Onel 5969  TT me 13:45, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Leaning towards delete. The sources mentioned above are only mentions. Can we build a biography with them? No. Are there better sources on the internet? Not likely. I have also tried حميد الدين شرفي, but to no avail (I think that is how it is written in the Urdu script, but correct me if I'm wrong), so internet-wise he fails WP:GNG. Are there better sources offline? Maybe. Will people with access to offline sources ever improve this article? Not likely, considering the very low edit frequency. Thus we are left with an unimprovable article. - HyperGaruda (talk) 21:08, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete The coverage is only passing mentions about the subject fails WP:SIGCOV and there are thousands of  Islamic scholars  in India not clear why the particular subject is notable.Further the organisation founded by him also does not appear to be notable and does not have a corresponding article WP:WTAF Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 13:57, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's no way to evaluate the career of scholars in this pattern, unless there are good written sources, and being referredto in the Indian press is not a sufficiently reliable source.  DGG ( talk ) 17:02, 20 January 2016 (UTC)


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