Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobby Hajjaj

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. MBisanz ^talk 00:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bobby Hajjaj[edit]

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Fail to pass notability guideline. Ibrahim Husain Meraj (talk) 07:38, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 16:49, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Worldbruce (talk) 16:49, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment He doesn't meet WP:POLITICIAN because he hasn't been elected to or held office. The closest he has come is an abortive run for mayor of Dhaka. He is a figure within the Jatiya party; does he meet WP:GNG? His political career can be summed up as:

February 2013: appointed special adviser to party leader
February 2014: appointed party spokesman
March 2015: in break with party, declared his independent candidacy for mayor of Dhaka
April 2015: pulled out of mayor's race
August 2015: reinstated as special adviser to party leader

Each event was covered by plenty of media, but generally in the form: "According to a press release ..." He's been on at least three political talk shows. They're in rapid-fire Bengali, so I can't evaluate whether they're significant coverage of him, or whether he's just acting as a mouthpiece for the party. Worldbruce (talk) 06:16, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

He has received ~~significant~~ some coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. He might be in the borderline of GNG. There is, however, a possibility that the article is created by editors with CoI. --nafSadh did say 16:53, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 23:10, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, whilst the page has a promotional (probably COI) tone, I think minimum standards for notability are clearly met. Googling the name in Bangla gives plenty of hits, for example Prothom Alo (major daily national newspaper) has 954 article with him, including articles where his own campaign is covered as the main topic (for example http://www.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/article/482671 ). --Soman (talk) 13:51, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Onel5969 ^{TT me} 14:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The article needs work but they appear to have sufficient coverage in reliable sources. Jujutacular (talk) 21:11, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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