Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yusuf Khan and Sherbano


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — Yashtalk stalk 19:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Yusuf Khan and Sherbano

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Multiple issues for 3 years, unreferenced. Possible copy and paste of : http://www.khyberwatch.com/Sahar/2011/Sahar-Jan-2011.pdf [PDF] Jennica ✿ / talk 09:18, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep - I've completely rewritten the article. While there are not a lot of sources that I can find, those I see suggest the story is a major one in Pashto folklore. By my count, it passes Notability (books) criteria 1 (published print translations into French in 1982 and English in 1988) 3 (turned into a significant Pashto movie) and maybe WP:GNG, with in depth coverage by Heston (1986, 1994) and mention as representative of a genre in Pashto Culture by Hanaway (2011). The weaknesses of this argument include the issue that Heston was a coauthor in the English translation and is the main source of in depth coverage, the French translation was for a MA thesis, and the mention in Hanaway (2011) is passing. Smmurphy(Talk) 18:52, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 12:10, 21 February 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep per the improvements to the article by User:Smmurphy (which render the nominator's rationale for deletion no longer valid.) Nice work, Smmurphy. --MelanieN (talk) 01:04, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 02:05, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per the rewrite. I believe it passes WP:NB. —MRD2014 📞 What I've done 03:22, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per above comments. Wonderful job User:Smmurphy on this. Aoba47 (talk) 14:28, 3 March 2017 (UTC)


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