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Usman Musa Shugaba

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The only notability of this person is serving as an Aide-de-Camp to governors and now as chief personal security officer to the president of Nigeria. The article is also very promotional. The references in the article are press releases announcing his appointment, and two about his controversial conducts which are not significant enough, the rest references are about different topics. Conducted WP:BEFORE nothing significant was found. Notability is not inherited from the offices and officials he is working with Mekomo (talk) 13:15, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Nigeria. Mekomo (talk) 13:15, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Police-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:26, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kotwali Model Thana, Barisal

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Disputed redirect without improvement. Non-notable local police station. Searches turn up mentions and the type of routine local coverage, fails WP:GNG. Will be adding the others created by this same editor to the afd with the same lack of coverage. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 18:40, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages because they are all also local non-notable police stations:

— Preceding unsigned comment added by onel5969 (talk • contribs) 18:48, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Police and Bangladesh. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:03, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This, and all of the other listed police station articles follow similar formats and contain similar levels of information, and are recently created in early 2025. Each seems to have a legitimate second source, and therefore fails WP:GNG. Rather than delete these articles, it might be better to treat each as a stub and wait for the Wikipedia Community to expand the articles. Revisiting these articles in one year, say June 2026, to see if they have been expanded or not, and perhaps then decide if they are legitimate candidates for deletion. Truthanado (talk) 19:38, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wait you say legitimate and then you say it fails, im sorry, can you please clarify or check again if this is a mistake? BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 12:32, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep — Thanas are administrative units and police stations both, they contain relevant and important information, deleting them is not that beneficial, yes upazila system exists and most rural thanas' administrative values have shifted to upazilas but its not the same with urban thanas, its not "non-notable", not every thana receives a 190 page summary, but also not every thana has a page on Banglapedia, these pages do, you see the wards and administration? These thanas linked with Metropolitan Police are extremely important, plus if you saw issues with the pages i created, you couldve improved them yourself, i dont have all time in the world, i have exams, assignments, homework, projects, chores and i also contribute to other platforms, i still try to improve and create pages in Wikipedia though but it would be better for Wikipedia too, if contributors improve the pages i created and many others created, thats the whole purpose, you improve pages and create some yourself, if you see a issue, you try to improve it or see whether it has importance and then talks about possible outcomes and discussions. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 12:38, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - on this, and other AfDs, it has been asserted that "Thanas are administrative units and police stations both". However, nowhere has a reputable, reliable government source been given to substantiate that claim. And even if that is correct, is it true for all thanas? Source please.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 21:04, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 16:09, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Airport Thana which according to Banglapedia, (https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Airport_Thana) in an administrative area home to 166,870 people. It has its article on Banglapedia, which most of the 650 police stations do not. A good rule of thumb to use here would be to see if Banglapeda has an article on the subject, which would demonstrate that this particular thana is a legally recognised, populated place which are presumed to be notable. The articles would have to be reworked to focus on the area rather than the police station. In case there is no article, it's a police station, which usually is not notable. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 00:46, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, you are correct, the Banglapedia factor is correct but not every thana is listed on Banglapedia, some thanas were established after or the pages were not yet written, the administrative debate here is that whether thanas are just police stations or administrative units and also used for law enforcement is complex, there are many thanas that are just police stations and many thanas that are administrative units, its not always clearly detailed whether which one, initially Hussain Muhammad Ershad who was the Chief Martial Law Administrator and President created the upazila system, and administrative value of thanas were given to upazilas or sub-districts, but when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party came into power, Khaleda Zia and her administration switched back to the thana system in 1992, but when Sheikh Hasina came back to power in 1996, she started taking decisions which were more aligned with the upazila system and in 1999, the Sheikh Hasina regime shifted administrative value again and then upazilas became the administrative unit for sub-districts again, afterwards many thanas were relieved from their administrative duties but not all thanas lost their administrative value, thanas in urban areas still have administrative duties, such thanas are all over the country, like in Dhaka, Sylhet, Chattogram, Barisal, Rangpur, Khulna, Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Kushtia and other areas, and many still have administrative value, even if there is not a article about a thana in Banglapedia, it can still be a administrative unit, i am Bangladeshi and i can search both online and offline for sources, you can check if any source mentions the thana consisting of unions or wards, then it can definitely be a administrative unit as well. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 15:10, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Banglapedia is a local encyclopedia...having an article on a local police station there doesn’t surprise me. Chronos.Zx (talk) 06:08, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
again, the same contradiction, Banglapedia is still relavant, being local doesnt make it unreliable and these are not just police stations, not every country is like yours, thanas are both police stations and administrative units in many cases in Bangladesh. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 17:59, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn’t reject sources because they’re from a specific country. Banglapedia is written and reviewed by national scholars and is a reliable source — your discomfort with 'local sources' doesn’t invalidate its credibility, what next? Should we regard Encyclopedia Britannica as local sources as well and other encyclopedias of other countries as local sources so they cant be trusted? BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 18:17, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I never thought that one day I will see an article on police station on Wiki, should we now create articles on millions of police stations present in the world? Never... Chronos.Zx (talk) 06:02, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete these articles too. Chronos.Zx (talk) 06:04, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

again, these are not just police stations, not every country is like yours, thanas are both police stations and administrative units in many cases in Bangladesh, First learn and then vote. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 17:59, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ok, Funny how seeing a thana article shocks you — yet these are literally how many urban areas in Bangladesh are organized. What’s next? Being surprised that cities have wards too? So because you 'never thought' a thana would be on Wikipedia, the whole system is invalid? Please see Bangladeshi reports on administration and i am in Bangladesh myself, I know how it is, You’ll realize thana isn’t just a police box on the corner — it’s how people identify their entire neighborhood many times, just because Upazilas exist, that doesnt mean all thanas lost their administrative value, some (rural) ones did but not urban ones, urban thanas still have administrative value. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 18:05, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please read Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 18:08, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I have tried to do some research on this topic to have an informed opinion but I think I am just more confused. Administrative geography of Bangladesh, Thanas of Bangladesh, and Upazila all seem to agree that thana used to be an administrative unit until 1982 when they became upazila, then from 1992-1999 they were thana again, but now they are back to upazila. They also say The word thana is now used to solely refer to police stations. Following this advice I would argue for DELETE. Perhaps these articles are about upazila instead in which case they should be renamed or this fact somehow made clear. Shah Poran Thana for instance seems to clearly state it is about a police station. Moritoriko (talk) 03:58, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Owen× ☎ 14:25, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep – Honestly, I trust the person claiming to be Bangladeshi about their significant. I only say "weak keep" instead of just "keep" because I am not informed on the subject. – Ike Lek (talk) 05:58, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ike Lek: Would it affect your trust in BangladeshiEditorInSylhet's judgement to know that they have been blocked indefinitely from creating articles in mainspace, precisely because they fail to understand notability? Sometimes it takes an outsider like Moritoriko to see that the emperor has no clothes. --Worldbruce (talk) 18:42, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The point that swayed me the most was the administrative importance of the division. I don't think your interpretation of who is an outsider is correct. I had never heard of the user or the article subject before. I think that's about as "outsider" as it gets. Your statements about BangladeshiEditorInSylhet did concern me, so I took the time to go back through their talk page, and honestly I think they were treated a little unfairly. English Wikipedia's notability guidelines are applied far to harshly in my opinion, and it most negatively affects coverage of areas of the world that are already suffering from a lack of global attention. This doesn't mean anything goes, but I think there is room to understand that the notability of a thing can depend on the context of the systems it is in. – Ike Lek (talk) 21:36, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Your POV is very logical here Ike Lek, and even though the discussion on ANI led to a indefinite restriction of creating mainspace articles, you can check this page in particular which i created, this is notable among others, some issues occurred between notability issues of the other articles i created. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 21:13, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, i am trying to be neutral here but i myself am from Moglabazar Thana, Sylhet, Bangladesh, i have done local, offline and online research on the administrative importance of thanas and i know the topic well. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 21:10, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Final relist for bundled nomination.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:53, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete all. None of them are likely to rise to WP:GNG. There is some local coverage. Many of these are passing mentions in a 1E context. Czarking0 (talk) 23:51, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hell no, they can definitely pass WP:GNG, its only been 3 months since they were created and not much collaboration by other users until AfDs came up, and when i created these pages, i thought since these are administrative units, everybody will understand the difference of thanas under city corporations (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and Bangladesh National Portal gives key information on administrative units including evidence that thanas are administrative units, especially thanas under city corporations or for decentralization), thus i added just some sources in-depth, but if i add all on what i could find, then definitely it can pass GNG, don't act like this is a site only supposed to be improved by the author, its a site for collaboration. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 21:06, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]