Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. K. Qureshi

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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 16:34, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A. K. Qureshi[edit]

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Fails WP:NACTOR, WP:NFILMMAKER. Apart from a dead link, the references are a churnalism obit. WP:NOTMEMORIAL applies. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 12:58, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment According to this profile, [1] he was the founder of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation as well as acting in a more 100 films. Any one of them those as a statement would make him notable. Even if it was 100 odd film where he was playing bit-parts it would make him easily worth an article and obviously highly notable. I think an attempt by a Pakistani language speaker to find sources for these two facts would be worthwhile. scope_creep^Talk 13:09, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Scope creep and others, show me WP:HEY and I will withdraw this with huge pleasure. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:19, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That was the reason I asked for a "Pakistani language speaker to find sources". Finding sources there would be quite difficult for me. The paper, "The Independent" was in good standing and had a established journalistic process, so while it is a profile, it is a valid WP:SECONDARY source, so it is good start. Covid got the paper and flooding for info. There is an need to do the do on an article update to satisfy the WP:HEYMANN standard and I'm sure somebody will appear and work on it, in short order. But he is notable. scope_creep^Talk 13:27, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, the source doesn't claim he was the founder of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC). Before 1971, the only major studio in what is now Bangladesh was the government-funded East Pakistan Film Development Corporation. Practically everyone who worked in the local industry worked for them. When Bangladesh became independent, the company became the BFDC, and essentially everyone in the business at the time became "a founding member" of the renamed near-monopoly.--Worldbruce (talk) 19:28, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. — DaxServer (t · m · c) 13:41, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 13:43, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:03, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Searches, in English and Bengali, using Google, WP:TWL, and my own print collection on Bangladesh, found only one other source that is reliable, a passing mention in a film magazine that he was in the cast of Chittagong: The Last Stopover. The dearth of sources does not surprise me, because much of his work was on TV ("dramas"). Writing about TV is far far less developed in Bangladesh than in the West, where it would be safe to assume that any actor prolific enough to have performed 100 bit parts would have been written about at length somewhere. The previously referenced obituaries reference each other, and some (or all?) of the information in them originates with his family via Facebook, so I'm not persuaded that they collectively satisfy WP:GNG. --Worldbruce (talk) 22:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. For the reasons stated in the nomination. BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 04:30, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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