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All references are about the article person's death only. WP:NOTMEMORIAL clearly says " Subjects of encyclopedia articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability requirements." Twinkle1990 (talk) 10:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • I don't the issue is a lack of notability, but the article should be speedy deleted as a copyright violation, with very close paraphrasing from here, e.g.
  • Article:"However, she continued to perform at private concerts as she begin to support her family financially and funding the education of her younger sisters and brothers. According to Bilqees that she was deprived of education due to her family's financial situation so she wanted her younger siblings to achieved higher education. When television started in Lahore at that time Bilqees was already an established radio singer and didn't have to audition to get an opportunity on television. She started her singing career on Pakistan Television with a Punjabi song, and then went on to sing many national songs during the 1965 war."
  • Source:"However, she continued to perform at private concerts as she was supporting her family financially and funding the education of her brothers. She had been deprived of education because of her family’s financial hardship. By the time television started in Lahore, Bilqees, was an established radio singer and didn’t have to audition to get an opportunity on television. She started her singing career on Pakistan Television with a Punjabi song, and then went on to sing many national songs during the 1965 war."

I've tagged the article for speedy deletion as a copyvio. Fram (talk) 10:50, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Sure, why not? Either it gets speedy deleted, and the AfD closed as no longer applicable: or the speedy gets rejected, and the AfD can continue. The arguments for both are different, the AfD can't overrule the speedy, but a declined speedy wouldn't make the AfD invalid or useless. Fram (talk) 11:14, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Fine then. After all found a spam here. I am surprised that the article was patrolled by a NPP. How that NPP can be so irresponsible in patrolling the page. Twinkle1990 (talk) 11:27, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The copyvio has been removed from the article, leaving a much shorter but copyvio-free stub. I have struck my speedy delete recommendation accordingly, and the AfD can now continue on the WP:N merits of the subject. Fram (talk) 12:17, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]


  • Note: (edit conflict) Fram is right about the copyright infringement, but that infringement does not go right back to the earliest versions of the article, and the speedy deletion policy requires that in this situation "earlier versions without infringement should be retained". i have therefore reverted to the last version before an editor started the process of editing the copyright-infringing material into the article. That leaves the article as little more than a stub, with three references two of which are, as Twinkle1990 says, announcements of her death, and the other is a 3-sentence expression of a point of view, and certainly not substantial coverage of her. I have not checked for other coverage of her, so I have no idea whether she satisfies the notability guidelines. JBW (talk) 12:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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