Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yusuf Gobir


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 15:47, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Yusuf Gobir

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Sounds like a very capable man, but does he meet WP:GNG or WP:NPOL? I couldn't establish that he does. Boleyn (talk) 08:08, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Nigeria-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:22, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ☢️ Radioactive 🎃 (talk) 09:25, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete – there's no presumptive notability for government bureaucrats, and my searches aren't finding anything that goes beyond trivial single-sentence mentions. While I'm glad to reevaluate if satisfactory sourcing can be found, it seems to me that he fails the GNG. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:27, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Are you sure about that? Have you looked at Google Books? The name gives a few false positives but many of the hits seem to be about this subject, with his name often being prefixed by Alhaji. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:14, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. While many of the Google Books hits (which I had looked at) are precisely the sort of trivial single-sentence mentions that I referenced above, I now see that some of them do indeed provide a bit more. Combining them probably produces enough sources to meet WP:BASIC, and in any event the difficulty of searching and the likely presence of offline sources makes this a perfect case to apply an WP:NEXIST-based inference that more coverage is available. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 15:43, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep A search for "Yusuf Amuda Gobir" through google books brings up enough sources     to indicate that more offline sources exist and that subject was notable for his work in the 60s and 70s and passes WP:BASIC.  Princess of Ara (talk)  13:05, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  12:54, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - Permanent Secretary is a very senior post in Nigeria (effectively at par with Ministers), esp. in Ministry of Defense. --Soman (talk) 13:19, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Most senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence during the Biafran crisis; eminently notable. Entries in biographical encyclopedia, meets WP:ANYBIO c.3. Frequent mentions across numerous texts which discuss Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s. "...Yusuf Gobir, and Edwin Ogbu, all of whom were highly regarded, and all of whom contributed immensely to preserving Nigeria's unity."


 * regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 11:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC)


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