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The result was keep. J04n(talk page) 10:19, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Salauddin Ahmed

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Notability not established, and I couldn't find any major award, built project or publication about this architect. There is an interview [1] which attests existence, but not notability. The article already once created by the same editor has been deleted as copyvio in 2011. ELEKHH^T 20:14, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. ELEKHH^T 20:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bangladesh-related deletion discussions. ELEKHH^T 20:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:02, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Seems notable to me. Interviewed by major sources here and here. --Zayeem ^(talk) 15:17, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The mentioned buildings would probably be notable for articles too. In ictu oculi (talk)
Keep - he won a major award, and the article has reliable sources. Past copyvio has not been a bullet the the heart of a resurrected article (pardon the bad mixed metaphor). Bearian (talk) 20:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Local awards by the paints industry fail to convince me that represent a "major" recognition in architecture, but anyway, seeing that every football player on Earth has a Wikipedia article, I'm giving up caring about any standard of notability. --ELEKHH^T 21:48, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What is local about the awards? Phil Bridger (talk) 22:04, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Socio-geographic scope. --ELEKHH^T 03:15, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

These are national awards in the world's eighth most populous country. Hardly local. Phil Bridger (talk) 08:16, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeh, but the award doesn't seem to be for vernacular architecture, so the potential competitors are not the whole population but merely its apparently 1,700 architects, and is not clear from the references how broad participation is. The news reports which serve as reference of notability are merely truncated versions of the press-releases. Anyway, given the improvements to the article since this AfD has been initiated, at least I could identify one of his projects, so finally the article starts to kind of give some useful information. As said above, since every active football player already has an article, is only fair to create one for every active architect. It also helps Wikipedia grow, even if not in quality.--ELEKHH^T 08:55, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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