Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdul Qadir (Afghan leader)

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 of the debate was Speedy deleted at request of creator. Haji Abdul Qadir to be moved to the title. Capitalistroadster 18:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abdul Qadir (Afghan leader)

I started this article. There was already an Abdul Qadir, about a cricket player. Then I discovered an earlier, existing article - Haji Abdul Qadir. The only problem with redirecting [[Abdul Qadir (Afghan leader)]] to [[Haji Abdul Qadir]] is that Haji is an honorary title, and, conventionally, honorary titles aren't part of the names of biographical articles. I thought moving the existing article to a name, like the one I picked, was desirable. AIUI, moving an article, with its edit history, requires the new article name to be un-used. Therefore deletion seemed in order. Geo Swan 16:34, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I thought this should have been an obvious candidate for speedy deletion. The article creator requesting its deletion a few hours later. But both {db} notes I put on the article were removed. -- Geo Swan 16:24, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry. I was one of the people who removed it as it seemed a reasonable article. I should have checked the history and the nomination or the article talk page should have explained the history more clearly. I will speedy delete it now so as to save any further problems. Capitalistroadster

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