Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Haider Ali (musician)
Hi, thank you for raising the concerns and outlining the issues with this article. I want to take this opportunity to address everything clearly and form the basis for keeping this article in the mainspace and explain with polices as to why the article has a place in the Wiki encyclopedia. I would also like to request the nominator of the deletion of this article and any administrator(s) to form the judgment based on logical reasoning presented before us, and the review process should not be decided solely by head count, but by consensus according to Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Deletion_review. Since our discussion several days ago, I have made some important edits, and cleared all the issues raised above, and added half a dozen new relevant sources from major news publications in Pakistan. The irrelevant sources and information confusing the subject of this article with another person have now been removed, and all the discrepancies have been addressed accordingly as well. The LinkedIn sources were used as part of the  policy under which self-published sources from the subject may be used as sources of information about themselves if the article is not based primarily on such sources which it never was, however, the LinkedIn sources have also been removed now due to being controversial in this  debate. Now onto why the subject is of public interest and why the article should be kept, and how it meets the 'notable' per Wikipedia criteria under , , , and specifically  policies — upon research, I have found that the subject of this article is a member of internationally acclaimed Pakistani pop/rock band, Strings (band), with whom he (the subject) and the rest of the band have sold over 25 million albums worldwide to this day, and have won the following awards for their music performances internationally and in Pakistan Strings_(band)#Awards_and_honours and it meets the criteria set forth under  notability policy on all counts. Furthermore, the subject has also been a part of the house band on Coke Studio (Pakistan) — the longest-running annual television music show in Pakistan, running annually since 2008, and the subject joined the show on Coke_Studio_(Pakistani_season_8) in 2015 as a guitarist and keyboardist, and returned for the Coke_Studio_(Pakistani_season_9) in 2016 as a guitarist and Coke_Studio_(Pakistani_season_10) in 2017 as a keyboardist for three consecutive seasons — on the show he has performed alongside one of the biggest names in Pakistan's music industry including: Atif_Aslam, Momina_Mustehsan, Ali_Azmat, his own band Strings (band), and many more. The show is televised and broadcasted on all major Pakistani news/entertainment T.V. channels, and radio stations with new episodes air on weekly basis and reruns air throughout the week, and the show has been viewed in 186 countries across the world Coke_Studio_(Pakistani_TV_program)#Reception, and the musical performances from the show are easily found on YouTube publicly for anyone to watch, hence, there is no doubt whatsoever whether the subject of this article is 'notable' per Wikipedia criteria , , , and  policies or not — the subject is being shown on television right now as we speak. It should also be taken into the consideration that the subject's band Strings (music) and its' (several) members have their own separate articles, therefore, the subject should also be included in the Wiki encyclopedia and have his own article as the sources are cited accordingly, and news coverage the subject has received in the media is overwhelming. In conclusion, I believe this article should be kept, and the nomination for the deletion should be withdrawn in light of the new evidence presented above. Thank you
— User:Alexjnoah, 13:35, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ABOUTSELF||WP:AFD||WP:GNG||WP:NBIO||WP:NARTIST||WP:MUSIC||WP:BAND||WP:GNG||WP:NBIO||WP:NARTIST||WP:MUSIC (Wikipedia:Verifiability)