Hidayat ur Rehman Baloch – Endorsed and restored. Editors generally agree that a) the AfD was closed correctly and b) the subject has now become notable. There is some disagreement about how exactly to proceed (whether to undelete, send to draftspace for updating, and/or recreate a from scratch) but a clear consensus about what the end result should be, so to cut the Gordian knot I'm just going to restore the article and update it myself. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 02:04, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
Neutral. I closed the AfD, but was asked to restore the bio because of the election. I recommended Ainty Painty to go here, as I'm not sure that being a member of the Balochistan Assembly meets NPOL. --Randykitty (talk) 11:17, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Endorse AfD closure but allow undeletion due to the subject's new position. NPOL confers a presumption of notability to elected provincial legislators in Pakistan, but the sources cited by the appellant don't offer any significant coverage. Hopefully we'll get more soon. Owen×☎12:12, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's been a year, but the nom was a sock and the non-weak delete vote may have been a sock, leaving one weak delete. I'm not sure what the article was like before but I don't see any reason to not allow a new article to be created here. SportingFlyerT·C14:33, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Allow recreation per WP:POLITICIAN; a provincial legislator in Pakistan ought to be notable, as Pakistan is a very populous country with very few provinces. The previous version of the article was only three sentences long, so I hope that a better version can be created with appropriate sources. --Metropolitan90(talk)05:35, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Overturn to soft delete as the nom is a confirmed sock and that only leaves two delete votes, which is not a quorum to delete an article. Soft-deleted articles should be speedily restored upon any good-faith challenge to the deletion (e.g. this DRV). Further, with the subject's recent election win, he now has presumed notability under WP:NPOL. However, adequate referencing must be added to the page or it is subject to another AFD. FrankAnchor20:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, there is no way you were expected to know that when you made your close which was 100% correct based on information known at the time. Now that the sock information has been made available, the close can be modified. FrankAnchor01:34, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Undelete to draftspace instead of mainspace because it's an outdated BLP. To interested editors: Update the information while the page is a draft and then move to mainspace. Alternatively, if you don't want to use any of the deleted page's content, just create a wholly new and up-to-date article (if doing it this way, a deletion review wasn't needed).—Alalch E.01:50, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
