Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mohan Baral

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. It seems like a rename is also appropriate, but I leave that to the usual editorial processes. RL0919 (talk) 15:17, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mohan Baral

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No reliable source for WP:Verifiability. ~ Yeti Dai (talk) 08:47, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Bands and musicians, Politicians, and Nepal. • Gene93k (talk) 12:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Verifiable member of parliament passes WP:POLITICIAN,[1][2] whatever this person's notability as an entertainer. Please note that the nominator removed a reference as "unreliable" before taking to AfD for lack of sources. • Gene93k (talk) 13:10, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This source [3] from DCnepal.com has no content in it. That's why I removed it. ~ Yeti Dai (talk) 13:59, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ Keep and rename ~~As entirely unverifiable.~~ Agree now passes WP:NPOL. I can find a Mohan Baral who is leader of the Nepali Congress party, ~~but can't find any governmental post.~~ As leader of a political party, he is not automatically notable. You could redirect to Nepali Congress Party as an alternative to deletion. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: May be a hoax. I am unable to find any source in English or Nepali (it is also very suspicious that he doesn't have an article on ne.wiki, as that is one of our more active projects) that shows he was appointed to the ministry. In fact, the reason I say it is possibly a hoax is because the ministry he was purportedly minister of (Ministry of Urban Development (Nepal)) was already occupied from Feb 2014 to Oct 2015 by Narayan Khadka, and then was disbanded for the following two years. Curbon7 (talk) 19:19, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Found the election results [4] which show he was indeed elected to parliament. The reason we were unable to find him when searching for Mohan Baral is because that is not his name, it is Mohan Prasad Baral. Thus, keep and rename. Curbon7 (talk) 19:26, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Still no verification on the ministerial post however. Curbon7 (talk) 19:27, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename per Curbon7. Passes WP:NPOL. --Enos733 (talk) 04:30, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I did find his appointment to Chairman of the Agriculture and Water Resource Committee here and that article and this one confirm he was indeed elected as a parliamentarian representing Sindhuli-2, but as a Nepalese parliamentarian, without proof of a ministerial role, is he notable? Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 05:09, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:NPOL: "...national, or ...state/province–wide office, or have been members of legislative bodies at those levels." The SNG expressly includes all members of parliament and state/provincial legislators, not just the front bench ministers. • Gene93k (talk) 12:20, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rename per Curbon7. Passes WP:NPOL. Djflem (talk) 11:16, 25 October 2022 (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.