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The result was keep. Ad Orientem (talk) 01:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Doesn't meets criteria of Creative professionals. Also, failed WP:GNG. ~Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 07:22, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bangladesh -related deletion discussions. ~Ruyaba~ {talk} 07:55, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Author-related deletion discussions. ~Ruyaba~ {talk} 07:55, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - Does he not meet the criterion 'The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series) or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews'? Six novels is a good oeuvre. Sadly I'm not in a position to search the Bengali press for reviews, but I'd have thought that at least some of it will have received reviews which would meet this criterion? Alarichall (talk) 09:35, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - the article subject seems to meet WP:CREATIVE (Hossain is a novelist and film director) due to the coverage surrounding their works. For example, two of their novels have been the subject of full article book reviews in notable English-language newspapers, and Sadat received a good deal of coverage in Bangladeshi press when he won the 2016 Bangladesh Short and Documentary Film Festival award for Best Director for his short film The Shoes. This coverage satisfies WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO at the very least, and is a strong indicator the subject meets WP:CREATIVE.--SamHolt6 (talk) 14:26, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as has had his works reviewed in reliable sources and has coverage in rs such as The Observer and The Independent and a number of other reliable sources so passes WP:NAUTHOR, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 20:49, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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