Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zahid Mahmood

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The result was delete. j⚛e decker ^talk 01:59, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Zahid Mahmood

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This article seems inundated with a succession of hoaxes that describe the subject as a renowned medical practitioner, consultant, entrepreneur, commando, and specialist in education, all without any evidence for corroboration. Mephistophelian (contact) 18:32, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: On the contrary, I see nothing hoax-like in the article, rather a series of unremarkable aacomplishments.
- Delete in any case. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) (formerly R——bo) 22:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Almost entirely unsourced (I removed some sources which did not mention the subject) and unremarkable. Borderline A7 speedy deletion. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:27, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The article claims that the subject is an "Online Associate Professor" at Mogadishu University. I tried to search the M.U. website, but it's un-navigable. Google, Google News, and Google News Archives searches for ("zahid mahmood" mogadishu), refined to ("zahid mahmood" mogadishu university associate), yield nothing suggestive of coverage, not even brief promotional notices by M.U.

The article also claims that the subject ran a company called First Choice Consultancy Ltd. Google, Google News, and Google News Archives searches for ("zahid mahmood" "first choice") produce no results that don't appear to be taken directly from this article: again, not even the kind of self-promotional stuff one would expect from a real-world company, let alone independent in-depth coverage to satisfy WP:GNG. An older version of the article, edited only by its creator, states that Mahmood's company was called Future Choice Consultancy. Google searches for ("zahid mahmood" "future choice") turn up a few links, none suggestive of in-depth independent coverage; following one link leads to this page, indicating that Future Choice Consultants Ltd was incorporated in February 2011 and dissolved a little over a year later. The article was created in September 2011 by an SPA with, I suspect, promotional intent.

In summary: I could find no evidence of notability. I couldn't confirm the article's claim re. the University of Mogadishu (and an online associate professorship wouldn't confer notability anyhow); the short life of Future Choice Consultants suggests that it won't confer notability on its founder. Easy delete decision. Ammodramus (talk) 18:36, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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.