Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ali Barid Shah I
Whatever the status of the creator of the article and however poor the article itself, just a little  would have quickly established that the subject was the ruler of a sovereign state, the Bidar Sultanate, for nearly forty years (from about 1542 to about 1579, apparently with one or two short interruptions) and thus, by any reasonable interpretation, meets . For sources, try https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sxhAtCflwOMC&pg=PA183 this, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y7fUHMEDAyEC&pg=PA85 this, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_azACQAAQBAJ&pg=PT372 this and https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w6xpQpOCtzAC&pg=PA13 this
— User:PWilkinson, 00:16, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BEFORE||WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)