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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Störm (talk) 08:56, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammad Rafi Usmani (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Non notable Islamist from Pakistan. ❁ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ❁ (❁ᴅᴏᴍ❁) 02:31, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Islam-related deletion discussions. ❁ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ❁ (❁ᴅᴏᴍ❁) 02:31, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. ❁ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ❁ (❁ᴅᴏᴍ❁) 02:31, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Entirely fails to meet Wikipedia’s notability criteria. George Custer's Sabre (talk) 03:22, 10 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - This looks like an entire listing of books by Usmani, who has no notability. Analog Horror, (Speak) 01:25, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep. Notable scholar of Pakistan, rather the Deobandi school of thought. Passes WP:author and scholar both. He is current president of Darul Uloom Karachi. Needs reference improvements. Doesn't meet deletion.Aaqib Anjum Aafī (^talk) 22:59, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This article is much improved now and has 6 reliable references – Dawn (newspaper), The Express Tribune, The News International newspaper and 2 references from BBC News website. Rafi Usmani, the subject of this article, has been the Grand Mufti of Pakistan and the president of the largest religious seminary or religious institution in the city of Karachi, Pakistan – Darul Uloom Karachi. Ngrewal1 (talk) 00:37, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Rafi Usmani is Notable Islamic Scholar of Indian Subcontinent.belong the Scholar family and reputed in India and Pakistan also.Keep this --JUNED AHMAD NOOR (talk) 11:05, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Keep Title of Grand Mufti of Pakistan should be enough to keep this. However, There are much more coverage on him in English and Urdu.21:11, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
• Keep Muhammad Rafi Usmani is a well known personality. He is Grand Mufti of Pakistan (Mufti: a Muslim legal expert who is empowered to give rulings on religious matters.). Deleting such article will be a question mark on Wikipedia. --Tahir Mahmood (talk) 08:23, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment to closing admin. WP:PNSD. ❁ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ❁ (❁ᴅᴏᴍ❁) 18:18, 15 March 2020 (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.