Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M. Shahid Alam
Most of the sources listed by TopGun are not very useful, I fear. That Alam has published is irrelevant, what counts is whether those publications have been noted (refs 3-6). I'm not sure the review in ref 7 is published in a |reliable source (not saying it isn't, just that I don't know). The review in ref 8 is substantial, independent, and a reliable source. Ref 9 is just a promotional blurb by the publisher and absolutely not independent or useful to establish notability. Ref 10 seems just to be a blog and not a . Ref 11 is to a bookseller and completely unusable (they're trying to sell the book, like MacMillan, they're not going to be critical and only write how great the stuff and its author are
— User:Guillaume2303, 11:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)