Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ekramuddin Ahmad

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The result was keep. The newly added sources are uncontested. Sandstein 16:51, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ekramuddin Ahmad[edit]

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Does not meet WP:ANYBIO. Google search only finds people with the same name, blogspots and Wikipedia clones. » Shadowowl | talk 23:42, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:20, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:20, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The subject of the article died in 1940, so there may be difficulty finding online references. Participation by editors with access to print sources of that time would be helpful. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:25, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete verifiability means articles follow sources. This means if we have no sources, we must delete the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:37, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There are sources. I added one, another encyclopedia, which is likely where the information in the article came from. His literary criticism is written in Bengali, about authors who wrote in Bengali, so it isn't surprising that information about him in English takes some work to find.

His best-known book, Robindro-Protibha (or Rabindra pratibha, depending on the transliteration) was reprinted in 2011, nearly a hundred years after it was first published, and is held by a handful of western university libraries.[1] (WorldCat hardly covers India or Bangladesh, so it's difficult to assess how widely held his books are where people speak the language). Note that WorldCat renders his name three ways on the one catalog page: Ekarāmuddīna, Maulabi Ekrāmaddīna, and Ekramddin. He is probably most commonly referred to as Maulavi Ekramuddin.

Most sources are likely in Bengali and from around the 1920s, but his work is mentioned (albeit briefly) even today and in English:

Murshid, Khan Sarwar (1996). Contemporary Bengali Writing. Vol. 1: Pre-Bangladesh Period. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-984-05-1317-8.
Hossain, Emran (January 1998). "Muslim Intelligentsia in Bengal, 1857-1937: An Overview". Islamic Quarterly. 42 (1): 48, 50.
Samaddar, Ranabir (1998). Memory, Identity, Power: Politics in the Jungle Mahals (West Bengal), 1890-1950. Orient Longman. pp. 99, 141. ISBN 978-81-250-1025-8.
Quershi, Mahmud Shah (Fall 2008). "Literary Assessments of Tagore by Bengali Muslim Writers". University of Toronto Quarterly. 77 (4): 1137.
Dutta, Partha (October–December 2012). "Forest Satyagraha: An Unforgotten Saga in Junglemahal" (PDF). Central India Journal of Historical and Archaeological Research. 1 (4): 24.
Samaddar, Ranabir (2016). Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India. Routledge. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-317-20881-5.

The biography is short, but more than a few sentences and reasonably complete. There are sufficient independent reliable sources to verify it. Keep per WP:ENC and WP:WHYN. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:35, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per Worldbruce and the use of his textbook in schools.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 11:01, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - both WP:BASIC and WP:ANYBIO seem satisfied by Worldbruce's sources. Nosebagbear (talk) 11:50, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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