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The result was delete‎. Beeblebrox ^Beebletalks 22:13, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Uthman Ibn Farooq (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This is an article about an American Muslim missionary who runs a Masjid in California and also has a YouTube channel. I looked through the article's sourcing, and found it relatively lacking:

Source assessment table

Source	Independent?	Reliable?	Significant coverage?	Count source toward GNG?
OneMessageFoundation on YouTube	The BLP subject is more or less the person who runs the One Message Foundation	~ WP:ABOUTSELF	moot as clearly non-independent	✘ No
Canadian Dawah Conference	This is a speaker bio for a conference at which the BLP subject spoke	~ WP:ABOUTSELF	Moot as clearly non-independent	✘ No
Know Your Sheik	This is the same speaker bio as given for the Canadian Dahwah Conference, almost verbatim. This appears to be merely a host for self-submitted bios of Sheiks	~ WP:ABOUTSELF	Moot as clearly non-independent	✘ No
Masjid Ribat	The BLP subject serves as the Imam at Masjid Al-Ribat	~ WP:ABOUTSELF	Moot as clearly non-independent	✘ No
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.

After noticing this, I also tried to look for independent significant coverage of this individual from reliable news sources via an online search. Google news returned zero results for search terms Uthman Ibn Farooq Khan Yusufzai and عثمان بن فاروق خان یوسفزی (his Pashto name). But I was able to find some articles that mention a certain "Uthman Ibn Farooq" that are not presently cited:

• Middle East Forum: 1, 2 (apparent opinion piece), 3, 4, 5, 6
• Arab News: 1 (labeled opinion piece)
• Trinidad and Tobago Guardian: 1 (describing him as among a group denied into the country)
• Voice of the Cape: 1
• Politics Nigeria: 1

But I don't think this is enough to warrant an article. Middle East Forum is deemed unreliable at WP:NPPSG and the Arab News source is an editorial and thus not contributing towards notability, so these obviously don't help meet WP:NBASIC. "Voice of the Cape" is a local religious community radio station, and "Politics Nigeria" frankly looks like an online politics blog; while neither are mentioned in the WP:NPPSG (and have never been discussed at RSN, from what I can tell), I don't think either are reliable enough to contribute towards notability. And that leaves us with a single article in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, but no single source can satisfy the requirement that multiple qualifying sources cover a subject for them to be presumed notable.

As such, I do not think that this WP:BLP meets the relevant notability guideline of WP:NBASIC. And, in line with WP:DEL-REASON#8, I think we should delete this article. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 23:11, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Islam, Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, and California. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 23:11, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 23:14, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete you're correct, there is only 4 references, one of which is a link to his YouTube channel and the another is a link to a website of a random mosque where there is inadequate information regarding him, the remaining two don't give any indepth and verifiable information regarding him. Codonified (talk) 23:19, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: I can only find forums and op eds. There is no independent coverage in reliable sources, and there is way too much unsourced content in the article for it to remain in the main space. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 06:06, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Non-notable. Lacks WP:SIGCOV in multiple WP:RS. Zuck28 (talk) 12:52, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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