Talk:Grand Muftiship of Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Usernameunique (talk · contribs) 07:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article shares a number of the same issues as Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar; as such, the failed nomination for that article is a useful point of reference here.

In particular, this article is "is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria," and thus fails the first of the four criteria for immediate failures. Of the good article criteria, the clearest issues are with verifiability and breadth, but there are also concerns about neutrality.

First, significant parts of the article are unsourced. By way of example, the following sentences have zero citations between them:

March 13 – Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary, Sitaram Yechury met the Grand Mufti.
April 12 – Attended as chief guest of Rahmatun-Lil-Alameen Conference organised by Darul Uloom Ahle Sunnat Ashrafia.
12 May – Received a Mega reception in Kuwait.
24 May – Grand Mufti met with Ruler of Ras Al-Khaima.
26 May – Arrived to Malaysia for his second visit.
26 May – Received a reception in Bangalore.

More pressingly, the article is significantly lacking in breadth. In the last six months, a grand total of five events are listed. Even when events are listed, they say exceedingly little; "Issued official statement on Ayodhya dispute", for example, isn't useful without saying what the actual statement was. Nearly every entry here needs expansion: He received a "mega reception in Kuwait," but why was he in Kuwait in the first place? He arrived to Malaysia for his second visit—why, to go shopping or to go to a conference? He met with the ruler of Ras Al-Khaima; what did they discuss? There are ways to do a timeline of an important position, as articles on the Trump and Obama presidencies show. The main flaw here is simply that very few events are included.

As in the article on Musliyar, there are concerns about neutrality. He receives a "grand reception" here, a "mega reception" there, and is the "chief guest" on numerous occasions. But an article needs to say more than that someone is a cherished guest on the cocktail-party circuit; and this predominantly focuses on claiming how Musliyar is treated and perceived by others, rather than on what he did. These issues can be alleviated by expanding the breadth of the article, as noted above. But the amount of work required to do so means that this article is not yet close to good-article status. --Usernameunique (talk) 07:51, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]