Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yusuf Kabir

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The result was delete. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 07:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Yusuf Kabir

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Article has not been updated in two years and this case does not seem to particularly stand out from the thousands of gay men thrown into jail each year for sodomy. Not notable. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 12:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep. Notable enough to make international news and to have articles on 2 other Wikipedias. Exploding Boy (talk) 17:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

  It only made international gay news, lasted approximately a day, and nothing has happened since. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 02:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:BLP1E: "If reliable sources only cover the person in the context of a particular event, then a separate biography may be unwarranted" and WP:N: "A short burst of news reports about a topic does not necessarily constitute evidence of long-term notability." The potential sources [1] consist of a few newspaper articles written when he was arrested in July 2005, a trickle as they awaited trial, and again in December 2005 when they were acquitted (AccessMyLibrary always shows their date as 1 January 2007, but in fact the date on their article is 6 December 2005). No coverage since then; his case didn't change anything in Nigeria and has not been demonstrated to possess any larger significance. cab (talk) 03:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep if only because, unlike the other thousands, this one made international attention. The "Mail & Guardian" [2] had and article, so it had at least a tiny bit of non-gay press. As far as the timeline goes, notability is not temporary. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 17:48, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete unless updated "rosecutors were unable to provide any witnesses and have been given until August 3 [2005] to find corroborating evidence of the crime, during which time the two men will remain in prison." This is 2008.Something should be known about their fate by now. If there is no further information, there isnt enough permanent content. DGG (talk) 02:27, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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