Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/T. S. Aboobaker


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The result was delete. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:20, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

T. S. Aboobaker

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From the reliable references in this article, it would appear that Mr Aboobaker has been the equivalent of a Vice-mayor in Kalamassery a few times. I suggest that, as Mr Aboobaker has not been elected to any political position whatsoever, this article should be deleted. Shirt58 (talk) 11:15, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
 * It is obvious from the reliable references in the article that Mr Aboobaker has been elected to political offices. My comment that he was "not been elected to any political position whatsoever" is incorrect. I should have simply added WP:POLITICIAN, noting that Mr Aboobaker is an "elected local official" but that "just being an elected local official, ... does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the primary notability criterion of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article".--Shirt58 (talk) 10:35, 31 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - No evidence of notability. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:01, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete None of the sources in the article are reliable, and the person fails WP:NBIO. GeoffreyT2000  ( talk,  contribs ) 05:37, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Nominator comment x 2
 * I disagree with the assertion that the sources in this article are not reliable.
 * I see no good reason why the Kalamassery municipality website is not reliable source about itself or its elected politicians.
 * I see no good reason why http://www.lsg.kerala.gov.in/en/index.php is not accepted as reliable source about itself or its elected politicians.
 * That written, I still think this article should be deleted. --Shirt58 (talk) 12:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * When it comes to demonstrating notability, reliable sources have to be independent of the topic. A person's "staff" profile on the website of his own "employer" is likely to have been at least partially written by the subject himself, and can thus contain inflated biographical puffery and/or sweep inconvenient aspects of his biography (such as notable controversies or criticisms) under the rug — so that's why such a source is technically valid for basic verification that he exists, but cannot actually contribute toward the question of whether his existence is notable enough to warrant an encyclopedia article for it. It takes media coverage about him to resolve that latter issue, not profiles on the websites of organizations he's directly affiliated with. Bearcat (talk) 16:01, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 16:55, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 16:55, 3 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. Being the vice/deputy-mayor of a municipality of 63K is not an automatic WP:NPOL pass in and of itself — even the mayor of a city that size wouldn't be guaranteed inclusion if he couldn't actually be sourced over WP:GNG — but the referencing here is entirely to sources that cannot carry notability, such as a profile on the municipality's own self-published website about itself and a profile on the state government's overview agency for its local government subdivisions. No evidence of reliable source coverage in media has been shown at all — but media coverage, not primary source verification that he exists, is the kind of referencing it would take to make his existence notable for the purposes of an encyclopedia. Bearcat (talk) 17:45, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, below the limit for WP:NPOL. --Soman (talk) 21:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)


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