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The result was speedy keep. Bad faith nomination. (non-admin closure) ∯WBG^converse 14:35, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sabar Koti[edit]

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No notable & Fails WP:MUSIC Act345 (talk) 19:10, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. GSS (talk|c|em) 19:11, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. GSS (talk|c|em) 19:11, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment May I ask if you performed the WP:BEFORE checks? The article has 12 sources all reliable and most of them are independent of the subject, source #1 by United News of India has called him a Prominent Punjabi Sufi singer, #5 by Punjabi Tribune a sister project of The Tribune wrote ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਗਾਇਕੀ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਹੋਰ ਅਜ਼ੀਮ ਗਾਇਕ ਰੁਖ਼ਸਤ ਹੋ ਗਿਆ। (Another great singer from the Punjabi music industry has passed away), #9 by Punjabi Tribune called him ਪ੍ਰਸਿੱਧ ਸੂਫ਼ੀ ਗਾਇਕ (a popular Sufi singer) etc. I believe is enough to support the general notability guideline. GSS (talk|c|em) 19:57, 12 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - the sources I can read (and the rudimentary translations provided by Google Translate for the rest) indicate that WP:GNG is met. A couple of them are press releases and there's one I can't access at all, but there's definitely sufficient coverage, especially from around the time of his death. I think WP:NMUSIC can probably be said to be met as well at this time (note that the previous AfD discussion was seven years ago and ended in a soft delete). --bonadea contributions talk 12:11, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Bonadea; noting this discussion too. —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room}

You guys must be interested to know why this article is even up for deletion? actually, the sole purpose to nominate this article for deletion was to take a revenge against me because I nominated Varun Sardesai for deletion a few days back which upset the nominator .​​ GSS (talk|c|em) 13:39, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

H'mmm thanks for the background GSS. @Bonadea: I wonder if WP:SKCRIT#2 a or b might apply (particulary 'a', as it seems to fall squarely within the parameters of "vexatious"); what say ye? —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 13:49, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Heh. I was wondering if it was something like that, given the spurious paid editing accusation, which really seemed to come out of nowhere. Yeah, sk might be appropriate - I wouldn't be comfortable closing it myself though, having !voted already. --bonadea contributions talk 14:15, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Check. I'll ask for an outside opinion at AN. —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 14:25, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Passes WP:GNG. Sources mentioned in RS are reliable. Accesscrawl (talk) 14:30, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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