Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taleeb Noormohamed (2nd nomination)


 * 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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:58, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Taleeb Noormohamed
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This article was previously proposed for deletion about eight years ago. Editors elected for a borderline keep. It does not seem the article has improved since. It relies predominantly on dead links, primarily to promotional and other WP:ROUTINE coverage. Usually, candidates for office and prior unsuccessful candidates are not notable per WP:POLITICIAN. Notwithstanding that, a politician may be sufficiently notable if they meet WP:GNG. Of course, usually routine coverage does not count against towards that. I note that this article includes buzzwords, and has been marked as reading like a resume since February 2017. If the community agrees it does not meet our general notability guidelines a redirect to the relevant list of 2019 candidates may be appropriate. Wherever the discussion goes, I think it is worth having. I find these sort of discussions, seem to come up every election cycle.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 22:59, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I disagree with the initial assessment. The existing references, albeit dead, show that the subject meets WP:GNG as they are significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. There are some ROUTINE entries, but not all are. The more recent references just expand the concept. As a candidate, the subject does not meet POLITICIAN though. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:02, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:54, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of British Columbia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:54, 17 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. To be fair, the problem here isn't really that the references are dead links — we are allowed to cite stuff to unlinked print-only coverage, so dead links aren't the end of the world if the content can be recovered from an archiving database like ProQuest or newspapers.com. Rather, what's more definitive here is that virtually all of the reliable sources in the article are covering him specifically in the context of the candidacy itself — everything else the article says about him, in terms of trying to demonstrate that he had preexisting notability for other reasons before being an unsuccessful election candidate, is parked on primary sources (and a local-interest magazine listicle) rather than reliable or notability-making ones. And no, the fact that a few pieces of campaign coverage happen to exist does not in and of itself hand a candidate a GNG-based exemption from having to pass NPOL, either — every candidate in every election can always show a few pieces of campaign coverage, so if that were all it took to exempt a candidate from NPOL then NPOL would be inherently meaningless since no candidate would ever have to meet it anymore. So to actually qualify for an article, what he would have to show is a lot more reliable sources covering him in the context of his business career itself, and that's not what these sources are. Bearcat (talk) 16:20, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete An interesting person who has been engaged in the community, but nothing suggests the subject passes WP:GNG. The existing sources do not mention the subject or include either quotes or passing references. The campaign coverage is not sufficient to pass WP:NPOL as an unelected candidate. While I believe campaign coverage can assist in determining the notability of a subject, but the usual expectation is that a subject must pass WP:GNG prior to or independently of any campaign coverage. --Enos733 (talk) 19:49, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete for all of the reasons given in the nomination. I know plenty of people that are engaged in my community, but that doesn't mean they deserve a Wikipedia entry (WP:GNG).  Tkbrett  (✉) 22:15, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete for all of the reasons given above. He is not notable. EncycloCanuck (talk) 22:51, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails Notability. --SalmanZ (talk) 17:28, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been noted on the Political parties and politicians in Canada project talk page.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 20:34, 20 August 2019 (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.