Deletion of Abdul Salam (Taliban leader, Karabak front, 2001)

Comment: It seems to me that this nomination is based on a misunderstanding of |the wikipedia's policy on verifiability.  The nomination asserts that we don't even know whether Abdul Salam ''exists''.  Well, the very first sentence of  says we should aim for '''"verifiability, not truth"'''.  Basing a nomination for deletion on the question whether we know whether Abdul Salam ''really'' exists lapses from , because, without regard to whether we know he ''really'' exists, the American intelligence asserts he exists.  It is verifiable.  I suggest there is nothing exceptional about having articles on topics that may not exist.  We cover theoretical sub-atomic particles, which may or may not exist.  We cover the gods and supernatural beings from across the religious spectrum. We cover the 20th hijacker -- an individual who may not have existed
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:VER||WP:VER||WP:VER)

Comment: I went back through and reviewed this article again, the supporting documentation and the notability guidelines.  I also searched for addition sources to verify the information in the article. The current sourcing for this article is two primary sources. (I could not retrieve the first one for some reason, but will assume that the article accurately relates what the document says.)  As Geo Swan says above "Abdul Salam" is a very common name in the Muslim world and there is no verifiable connection that these two documents are talking about the same person. They could be or it could be two different people. I found zero reliable secondary sources that discuss this person in passing or in depth. According to #Basic criteria|the notability guideline for people the basic criteria is that a person is presumed to be notable if he has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.  We do not have that in this article.  All we have are primary sources that mention this common name in passing.  Again from #Basic criteria|the notability guideline for people the basic criteria goes on to say, primary sources may be used to support content in an article, but they do not contribute toward proving the notability of a subject.  At this point we have nothing to establish notability according to wikipedia guidelines
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO||WP:BIO)