Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alhaji sani labaran

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The result was delete. --jonny-mt 07:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alhaji sani labaran

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Extremely short article about a politician (possibly Nigerian). No hits in Google for this name. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 10:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete not notable no sourcesNewAtThis (talk) 10:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

User is a banned sock. Jfire (talk) 01:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete unless sourced. There's a good chunk about the PDP online considering how few online sources there are about Africa, and some indication that the surname (?) Labaran is often connected with the party. Alhaji is probably an honorific, not a first name. I couldn't find a list of founding members, or any indication this person is an active Nigerian politician or officeholder. --Dhartung | Talk 10:59, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment, 'Alhaji Labaran' gives some more google hits, but it seems they can refer to more than one person. Alhaji Labaran Inuwa is the National Organising Secretary of PDP[1][2], which would be a notable person (PDP is the biggest party in the most populous country in Africa). There is also 'Alhaji Labaran Abdu Maderi', who is a Kano State legislator[3], who would also be notable enough to have an article. Unclear if Alhaji Sani is the same individual as any of these. --Soman (talk) 18:16, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

• Comment As I noted above, Alhaji is an honorific (for Muslims who have completed the hajj to Mecca, so searching on it is about as useful as searching on "Mr." --Dhartung | Talk 23:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

• Comment. No there is a slight difference here. Many people take 'alhaji' as part of their name, they have it as their name in passports, id-documents, etc. In west africa, there are many 'Alhaji's who never did hajj themselves, is sometimes a name inherited from relatives, etc. ~Many people have no other 'first name' than Alhaji, at least in day-to-day-conversations. --Soman (talk) 23:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

• OK, thanks for that clarification. --Dhartung | Talk 01:29, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - "founding" is not an indication of notability per se. Bearian (talk) 18:39, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete due to inabaility to find sources on search attempts (I also tried Academic Search Complete and Amazon.com). I was not able to make many improvements. Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 02:30, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to People's Democratic Party (Nigeria) because he seems to be a notable person (but not by Wikipedia's standards). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedemonhog (talk • contribs)

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