Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Houssam Abiad

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:49, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Houssam Abiad

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Non-notable businessman. A local council member in Australia. Councils in Australia have little power, eg organising rubbish collection, maintaining suburban parks etc not health and education. Local businessman who is on a few local business committees. Article is also very spammy, and most of the content was added by Gamcmillan (talk · contribs) and Avabiad (talk · contribs) who have basically no other edits. Avabiad put in the edit summary that the contents were approved by the subject's PR folks Bumbubookworm (talk) 12:02, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 18:53, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:27, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Puff piece. Lots of info given, only 2 sources when you get about half-way through the article. Last source is facebook. Oaktree b (talk) 19:32, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The subject does not satisfy WP:BIO. Normally, mayors are not considered significant, let alone councillors. Teraplane (talk) 21:07, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete Google news brings up many more sources. But this article as it stands contains a lot of unsourced material and needs lot's of improvements. If the creator is reading, maybe they can improve it. Expertwikiguy (talk) 17:38, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep based on the SIGNIFICANT cleanup I have done to produce an appropriate article based on WP:IRSs. Cabrils (talk) 00:09, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think there is a precedent for why a member in third-level legislature (a local council), also noting that in Australia, councils don't run the whole metro area but just a district. Now he is a bureaucrat Bumbubookworm (talk) 10:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment: I'd keep in mind that this is a city council so much more likely to be notable than a suburban council. I can see some Deputy Lord Mayors of cities in Australia have their own Wikipedia article. Having said that, I think this article struggles to meet GNG after the PR links and content were removed. Deus et lex (talk) 11:42, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment: I agree, once the article is stripped back to what are legitimate IRSs (as I have none done) it seems very thin and probably doesn't satisfy WP:NOT. Cabrils (talk) 02:14, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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