Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ather Farouqui

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The result was speedy delete. Speedy deleted by Callanecc, multiple reasons: speedy deletion criteria CSD A7, CSD G11. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 10:35, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ather Farouqui

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This appears to be a biography of someone that does not meet notability criteria. The first six "references" are all just links to news/opinion articles the individual has written. Other references don't establish notability and/or aren't independent. Claims of notability in the article (e.g. "General Secretary of Anjuman Taraqui Urdu (Hind)" do not rise to a sufficient level to establish meeting WP:BIO or appear contradictory (for example, "He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2012" appears to contradict List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Urdu. In addition, the article is the work of a single purpose account with an apparent COI and the article is full of hyperbole, puffery, and other blatantly promotional content. The content is identical to a submission that was declined at AFC (here) for lack of notability. The creator of the draft then just bypassed AFC and created the biography in article space instead. Gnome de plume (talk) 17:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Purely promotional article on a non notable person. Fails WP:BLP and WP:GNG. I have also tagged the article for Speedy as it was created in contravention to Wikipedia policies for articles denied at AfC. Hagennos (talk) 04:55, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete nothing close to the impact in scholarly circles to show notability as an academic.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:50, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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