Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khurshid Marwat

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 no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 08:44, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Khurshid Marwat

Delete From what I gather he is a civil servant that likes to writes poetry. I would argue that doesn't rate a page. However I could be wrong.--Looper5920 02:00, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

• Don't Delete So many notable civil/public servants in Pakistan have literary contributions viz Qudratullah Shahab, Brig. Sadiq Salik, Daud Kamal etc. I dont see any harm if one is a civil servant and writes poetry. In Pakistan being a part of the Civil Services is considered as a matter of honor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nigar (talk • contribs)
• Keep - Categorise the page appropriately and modify the entry to place the poet in context with Pakistani literature, if notable. If not, delete. -- (aeropagitica)  09:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete The original author and an an IP address have removed the Afd tag in the articles brief history. I can find no confirmation of the book of poetry or of its author. Dlyons493 Talk 09:51, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per aeropagitica Jcuk 10:04, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• The article contains claims of notability, but they are not backed up by any evidence. I vote Delete unless proofs are provided. - Liberatore(T) 14:03, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable and probable vanity. Ifnord 16:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I have uploaded some of the images of his book that I currently have. I wish I had his Urdu book otherwise I would have also uploaded those images as well. All editors are requested to please appreciate the fact that it was a pioneering effort by a Pathan to write poetry in a language which was neither his mother tongue nor national dialect. This book may have gone unnoticed at that time, probably because of the reason that nobody cares for English poets in Pakistan and especially from a conservative place like NWFP. However, there were book reviews about this book in leading English Newspapers of Pakistan viz. “The Frontier Post” and “Pakistan Observer” at that time (I don’t have copies of those reviews but everybody is welcome to contact those two Newspapers and check their archives of late 1993). Even still if editors consider that this entry may be deleted then they are welcome to do so but then someone's genuine effort might go unnoticed. I may plead that it may be Kept.

• Weak keep if cleaned up. Appears to be at least notable within field in area - systemic bias, blah blah. FCYTravis 07:45, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. We probably need to remove the samples of his poetry as copyvio, though. -Colin Kimbrell 17:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. (and note that the third image above suggests that 1000 copies were printed. Even if we assume that every single one was sold, that isn't much.) Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:29, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I saw that too, but I don't know that a thousand-copy first printing isn't notable for the context (i.e. a foreign-language poetry collection published in Pakistan). It feels like it might be kind of a specialty market. -Colin Kimbrell 14:54, 4 January 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.