Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fathimath Shafeega

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 Keep.  (aeropagitica)  08:57, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fathimath Shafeega

"Shafeega, is famous in the Maldivian financial sector as the founder of the Maldivian Stock Market, The Maldives Stock Exchange" ← While this is notable enough to be an encyclopedic entry, it cannot be verified. A google query on the subjects returns 17 results. It can be verified that she is the Deputy Managing Director of MMA [1]. She is also in the Capital Market Advisory Committee of maldivesstockexchange. [2]. The about page of maldivesstockexchange.com doesnt specifically say she is the founder of the stock market, which is the encylopedic fact here. Therefore I nominate this to be deleted. Oblivious 15:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep but should be edited to conform with verifiable information. -- Malber (talk · contribs) 15:22, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Malber. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 16:36, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if the info can be verified. Otherwise delete. JoshuaZ 21:54, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep for the time being. We should give the contributor sometime to validate that particular comment about Ms. Shafeega being the founder of the stock exchange. Failure to do so, then Delete.--Fizan 14:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Pending verification AdamJacobMuller 03:06, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Meets Wikipedia:Notability. —Eternal Equinox | talk 02:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

The original notability factor (which is "founder of the Maldivian Stock Market") cannot be verified and is now removed from the article. The closest thing to notability that can be verified is "Shafeega, is the Deputy Managing Director, Capital Market Division of the Maldives Stock Exchange." I dont think its such a good idea to have an article for each and every managing director of each and every company out there... dont you think so? --Oblivious 03:03, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. A month and a half has been given to verify. I think it's a reasonable policy to keep for a verifiability probation period, but there has to be a limit. I can make up an infinite series of articles on people and things with assertions of notability which can never be deleted unless there's some consequences for failure to verify. --Fuhghettaboutit 03:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as unverified. --Terence Ong 03:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep. From "Tsunami Aftermath: In Maldives, a Gap Widens", The Asian Wall Street Journal, 3 January 2005: "FATHIMATH SHAFEEGA was overseeing the Maldives' tiny stock exchange when she spotted an unusual dark swell rolling toward her office from the Indian Ocean. She halted trading and sent everybody home." There's another story or two about her at other dates. We can take it as confirmed, I think, that she's indeed in charge (and why not founder?) of the Maldive stock exchange. But its tiny. So the question is whether this notable enough? Bucketsofg 15:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

If she really is the founder its notable enough. Else it isnt! --Oblivious 19:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Keep in this new AfD per Buckets. JoshuaZ 17:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; how many articles about Maldives executives usually make it onto Google? I wonder how a one-person stock exchange works, though. ProhibitOnions 21:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Seems confirmed that at minimum she is in charge of the Maldivian stock exchange. She may be a big fish in a small pond, but that's what overcoming systemic bias is about. Astounded that my Firefox has a Thaana font installed. Smerdis of Tlön 15:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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.