Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zulfikar Hirji

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Highly advertorialized WP:BLP of an academic, not properly sourced as passing WP:NPROF. As always, academics are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to show proper sourcing establishing that they surpass certain specific notability criteria -- but this is referenced entirely to primary sourcing that is not support for notability at all, such as his own self-published website and his own staff profile on the self-published website of his own employer and his own writing metasourcing its own existence, rather than any third-party validation of his significance in sources independent of himself.
There are further WP:COPYRIGHT issues here, as every book in his "selected works" isn't just "title + ISBN", but contains an extended advertorial spiel copied and pasted verbatim from its promotional page on the website of its own publisher.
Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to be written and sourced properly. Bearcat (talk) 14:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 14:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

:* Delete non-notable academic as per WP:NPROF, I did some searching for more about this person and wasn't able to find anything to establish notability. Dr vulpes (Talk) 23:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

:* Draftify The article wasn't written in an encyclopedic style. Hence, I will suggest the article is moved to draft to give room for improvement. Atibrarian (talk) 13:26, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

• Delete, no draftify. I don't see a pass of WP:PROF. I found a single one-paragraph review of a coauthored book [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40379016] and two reviews of edited volume Approaches to the Qur'an. That's not enough for WP:AUTHOR for me. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:22, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

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