Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taleeb Noormohamed (2nd nomination)
To be fair, the problem here isn't really that the references are dead links — we are allowed to cite stuff to unlinked print-only coverage, so dead links aren't the end of the world if the content can be recovered from an archiving database like ProQuest or newspapers.com. Rather, what's more definitive here is that virtually all of the |reliable sources in the article are covering him specifically in the context of the candidacy itself — everything else the article says about him, in terms of trying to demonstrate that he had preexisting notability for other reasons ''before'' being an unsuccessful election candidate, is parked on |primary sources (and a local-interest magazine listicle) rather than reliable or notability-making ones. And no, the fact that a few pieces of campaign coverage happen to exist does not in and of itself hand a candidate a GNG-based exemption from having to pass NPOL, either — ''every'' candidate in ''every'' election can ''always'' show a few pieces of campaign coverage, so if that were all it took to exempt a candidate from NPOL then NPOL would be inherently meaningless since no candidate would ever have to meet it anymore. So to actually qualify for an article, what he would have to show is a lot more reliable sources covering him in the context of his ''business'' career ''itself'', and that's not what these sources are
— User:Bearcat, 16:20, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)