Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Ahmed3

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 Delete per discussion as failing WP:BIO, notability outside television show not established. Shell ^babelfish 21:19, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Syed Ahmed

This article was previously deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Ahmed with the consensus of all nine participants to the discussion. It now seems to have been re-created without a deletion review (in clear violation of our policies) and amazingly has survived a subsequent AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Ahmed2.

Syed was a contestant on The Apprentice (UK series 2), and a perfectly adequate biography of him is provided in that article. He was not the winner, nor has he obtained (to my mind) any notability outside of the TV show. Media coverage of Syed seems limited to media speculation about his private life (almost exclusively in the Tabloids). Our precedent for shows such as Big Brother, whose contestants also received such media coverage, is to include a biography only on the programme's page. I therefore propose a delete and redirect to The Apprentice (UK series 2). _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 07:02, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep one of the most notable fly-on-the-wall reality show participants in UK history with current and ongoing media coverage much as I attempt to ignore it. MLA 10:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, and perform deletion review ST47 12:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Contestant in the Apprentice. Politely I could call this person a salesman, but objectively, he's nothing more than a liar and a cheat which are commom as muck. Not a contest winner, no notable achievements afterwards. Ohconfucius 22:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and per policies to not encourage violations thereof. Carlossuarez46 00:39, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
• keep if you look around the uk press you will see that he has recently achived yet more notibility and therfore should be kept Benon 00:51, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

• a few mentions of his private life in the tabloids does not constitute sufficient notability per our policies! _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 07:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Fails WP:BIO. Game show contestants are not notable, and unknown-contestant-based reality shows like The Apprentice are essentially game shows, as opposed to documentary-style reality shows like The Osbournes and Gene Simmons Family Jewels. wikipediatrix 23:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, merge anything useful with The_Apprentice (UK_series_2)#The Candidates. Xdamr^talk 14:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Seems plenty notable to me.--Myles Long 05:50, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, notable in the UK, people will come looking for information on him. bbx 05:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - These contestant pages are getting out of hand. This is an encyclopedia of knowledge, not pop culture literacy.

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.