Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rafika Akhter Jahan Baby

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The result was merge to Saidpur, Bangladesh#Administration. Spartaz ^Humbug! 19:51, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rafika Akhter Jahan Baby[edit]

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PROD contested with no comment by an IP, but this doesn't fulfill anything in WP:NPOL as far as I can see, and I also see no precedent for articles on mayors of mid-sized Bangladeshi towns like this. Also doubt there's enough WP:SIGCOV that I can't access due to the language barrier, but if there is, do add it to the article. AngryHarpy‍^talk 20:52, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete- Per nom. She is the head of the smallest administrative body in Bangladesh, unlikely to be notable.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 17:19, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Fails WP:NPOL and WP:SIGCOV.4meter4 (talk) 02:57, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Accessible Bangladeshi media is tough to come by, but the content is verifiable (see [1]). Mayors of cities that size in western countries routinely have articles, and applying a stricter standard for Asian countries would contribute to systemic bias. Saidpur has a population of 172 000 and would qualify as a significantly large city by most standards. (It is significantly larger than, e.g. Green Bay, Wisconsin where I note that every single mayor gets an article. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:47, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- "The content is verifiable" wasn't entirely true when you wrote that, the BLP stub made several assertions not supported by sources. Those have been removed now, and the remaining sentence: name, nationality, office, election date, and party, is verifiable. The population number you gave cited no source (Wikipedia strikes again, sigh). The most recent verifiable population is 127,000 (2011). If Green Bay, Wisconsin's population is really 104,000 (the cited shallow link fails verification) then your point that Saidpur is significantly more populous still holds. However, it isn't quite true that every single Green Bay mayor has an article. Harris Burgoyne was recently redirected when a deletion discussion concluded that he is not notable. --Worldbruce (talk) 17:11, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Saidpur, Bangladesh#Administration. The standard that should be applied is not how big the city is, which is not an element of any notability guideline, but whether the subject has received significant coverage in independent sources (WP:GNG) or has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists (WP:NPOL). The former guideline tells us, "It is common for multiple newspapers ... to publish the same story, sometimes with minor alterations or different headlines, but one story does not constitute multiple works." That's what we have here, multiple outlets all reporting the bare bones election results at the same time. There is effectively a single source, from which a single sentence of content can be squeezed. The reason we have notability guidelines is, "so that we can actually write a whole article, rather than half a paragraph or a definition of that topic." To keep this article would be to apply a much looser standard to her biography than to others. The Wikipedia community could choose to do that for Asian countries, perhaps in an attempt to redress systemic bias, but this isn't the venue in which to decide to do that. --Worldbruce (talk) 17:17, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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