Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Annisul Huq

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 keep (non-admin closure). Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:11, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Annisul Huq

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suspected autobiography due to creators name Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 18:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Musa^Talk ☻ 20:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Musa^Talk ☻ 20:23, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for now at best as News, Books, browsers and Highbeam found several links but perhaps nothing for an immediately better article which would be needed here. SwisterTwister talk 00:13, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Could some or all of the these: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] be mined to provide the material to raise the article to your standard? Worldbruce (talk) 16:30, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment @Zppix: Would you care to elaborate on your deletion rationale? "Suspected autobiography" is not one of the classic reasons for deletion. Wikipedia strongly discourages but does not prohibit autobiographies. If the theory that it's an autobiography is based on the fact that an Annisul Huq (who didn't create the article) has made one edit to it, then it's strange that their one edit was mostly to delete more than three paragraphs of unsourced material about how accomplished he is. If only more autobiographers were that helpful. Worldbruce (talk) 03:45, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Actually Wikipedia policies expressly prohibit autobiographies and such need to be deleted.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:14, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnpacklambert: Please provide a link to the alleged policy expressly prohibiting autobiographies. The guideline Wikipedia:Autobiography says something quite different: "Writing an autobiography on Wikipedia is strongly discouraged ... Editing a biography about yourself should only be done in clear-cut cases." (Emphasis in the original).

In any case, no evidence has been presented that this article is an autobiography. It was not created by Annisul Huq. Edits have been made by 26 non-bots, and include substantive edits by half a dozen regular contributors to WikiProject Bangladesh. If editor Barack Obama makes one edit to Barack Obama, must Wikipedia delete that article? Autobiographies are discouraged because it's difficult to write one that is neutral, verifiable, and free of original research. In my experience, they also tend to be written by non-notable people. So far, neither your nor Zppix has asserted that this article has any of these problems. If it did, all but the problem of notability could be fixed by editing rather needing to resort to deletion. Worldbruce (talk) 15:45, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep He is the present Mayor of North Dhaka, which is the Capital of Bangladesh and a city with over 10 million people. That makes him notable. The article is in bad shape but when did AFD become the place to improve articles. The creator's name is Tarek Iqbal and only one edit has been done by user named Annisul Huq which can be reverted. It has edits by many different users. Check history of the article. I think the mayor of Dhaka has better things to do then make an article about himself on Wikipedia. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 10:55, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Worldbruce:, For all we know Annsiul Huq, the editor, may or may not be the Mayor of the aforementioned capital. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 16:05, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Zppix: We don't know who any editor is. So why delete this article? Worldbruce (talk) 16:31, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 00:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, but stub unless sourcing is improved. Clearly meets WP:NPOL as mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation. The sourcing of the article is clearly not adequate for a WP:BLP - it currently seems to consist of one deadlink, which would probably prove both reliable and independent if it were still live, and three others which seem to be primary, not independent of the subject or both. However, a quick search shows a number of clearly reliable sources for his mayoralty, so that (and thus his notability) at least can be established. Finally, as already pointed out above, the creator of the article has quite a different name from the subject, and absolutely no positive evidence has been presented for the deletion rationale that the article is autobiography has been presented beyond the fact that an editor with the same name as the subject has made precisely one recent edit to the article. At most, that would be an argument for reverting the edit - though, in this particular case, even that does not seem advisable as the edit, if anything, improved the article by cutting out quite a bit of puffery (if all autobiographical edits were of this standard, there would be far fewer objections to them). PWilkinson (talk) 13:16, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep no need to stub, citations to multiple independent reliable sources have been added, including the BBC. There does not currently seem to be a pov or tone problem, but those should be identified, as required, on the article's talk page. --Bejnar (talk) 21:04, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There is no indication that WP:BEFORE was followed. No rational or policy-based reason for nomination has been advanced. The subject easily meets WP:POLITICIAN and WP:GNG. Worldbruce (talk)
Keep, this is a nonsense nomination. Notability is clearly established by any means, the individual is a mayor of a city with millions of inhabitants. Bio available here: http://www.dncc.gov.bd/mayor-administrator/mayor-s-profile.html , election is reported here http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2015/04/29/annisul-huq-gets-mandate-to-become-first-mayor-of-dhaka-north-city-corporation , facebook page has 212,000 likes, https://www.facebook.com/official.annisulhuq . The article was not created by any suspected COI accounts, there is a single edit from a user with that name. And AfD is not the place for clean-ups. --Soman (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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