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The result was merge to List of Left Behind characters. ✗plicit 03:33, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Not a notable character. Even if there’s more sources out there discussing him this character clearly doesn’t have enough importance to warrant his own page due to his seemingly rather minor role in the Left Behind series. Dronebogus (talk) 01:25, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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- Merge to List of Left Behind characters. His cited reception in [1] fails WP:SIGCOV (but is otherwise reliable and should be preserved by merger). I also found another SIGCOV failing one liner to enforce it here: [2]. Not sure if [3] goes beyond SIGCOV, the tiny snippet I see is very limited (update: found it here and no, it is useless). I didn't find anything else, but ping me if better sources I found (my search query was "Suhail Akbar" "Left Behind" and I'll revise my vote if necessary). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:33, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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- Merge to List of Left Behind characters per above. Sanketio31 (talk) 11:29, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Keep Suhail Akbar plays an important role in the latter part of the Left Behind series where he constantly harasses the Tribulation Force. He was also tasked in organizing the Battle of Armageddon where the Nicolae Carpathia makes one final push to destroy all dissidents to the Global Community. Akbar is effectively one of the most powerful people in the world and an instrumental part of the Global Community. Also, as we can see, he is also referred in secondary sources as an example how the Left Behind series does not positively depict Muslims. 47.149.194.55 (talk) 03:53, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge. Even if he is important in-fiction I have not been any to turn up any substantial coverage showing that he is independently notable enough for his own article. The most I found was [3] that Piotr identified above already, which is definitely not significant coverage; for notability I'd like to see a whole article with the character's name in the title, as we see with discussions of Snape as a possibly anti-semitic figure in Harry Potter. The discussion of anti-Muslim sentiment might belong on the article for Left Behind itself. ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 22:25, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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