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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:28, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

All India Azad Muslim Conference

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... that the All India Azad Muslim Conference represented several Islamic organisations that opposed the partition of India? "After the Muslim League’s Pakistan demand came to the surface, the Indian patriotic Muslims set out to protest all over the country. Almost all the Muslim organizations and the prominent personalities of the community openly staged their opposition to partition of India. All India Azad Muslim Conference played a prominent role here. According to its leader Allah Baksh, “No power on earth can rob anyone of his faith and convictions, and no power on earth shall be permitted to rob Indian Muslims of their just rights as Indian nationals.” The Conference had organized a meeting to oppose Pakistan resolution, on April 27, 1940 in Delhi, which in every aspect was a much more representative organization of Muslim opinion from all over the country than the Muslim League session held a month back at Lahore. The major Muslim organizations represented in the Conference were –All India Jamiat Ulama, All India Momin Conference, All India Majlis-e-Ahrar,All India Shia Political Conference, Khudai Khidmatgars, Bengal Krishak Proja Party, All India Muslim Parliamentary Board, The Anjuman-e-Watan (Baluchistan), All India Muslim Majlis, and Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees."

Created by Anupam (talk). Self-nominated at 23:48, 30 January 2019 (UTC).

@Anupam: Full review to follow, but I would suggest (as advice and not as requirement) that the article be reorganized; right now the lede is longer than any of the other sections (including the History section if you exclude the quote). Perhaps some of the content in the lede could be moved to the History section or be discussed in a new section? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:18, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
@Anupam: Are you still going to work on this article? It's been more than a month since the last edits to it, and none of my suggestions were worked on. Once this is done I can give this a review. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 20:28, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

User:Narutolovehinata5, I will restructure the lede shortly. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam^Talk 21:49, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

I have expanded the article significantly User:Narutolovehinata5. The lede of the article as it is (though I did move some some information to the "History" section as you suggested) summarizes the body of the article. Thanks, Anupam^Talk 03:34, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits. The article looks much better now and I'm tentatively approving this (it meets the requirements and the hook fact is cited inline and is interesting). The only concern I have remaining is that the hook could be rewritten slightly since it mentions "India" twice in quick succession. @Anupam: Once this is resolved, this will be good to go. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:30, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you User:Narutolovehinata5. I've edited the hook to remove one of those instances of the word "India". I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam^Talk 04:56, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Almost ready as the article meets most of the DYK requirements, and the hook is interesting and cited inline. Just needs a copyedit to fix grammar issues such as missing commas or improper capitalizations, and this will be good to go. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:34, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply User:Narutolovehinata5. Feel free to make the adjustments you feel are necessary. Kind regards, Anupam^Talk 21:03, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

User:Narutolovehinata5, the article was just copyedited and improved. I hope it would be good to go now. With regards, Anupam^Talk 02:55, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Although I tweaked a bit in the lead and the first paragraph of the history section, I haven't fully copy-edited the whole article; I'll try to do so today. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 ^{My talk page} 15:18, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5 and Anupam: I've tried to clean up the grammar and clarify some statements in the article the best I could, but I'm not familiar with the topic so I couldn't do as much as I'd like. Although DYK does not require that all statements are perfectly clear, there are a few things I noticed that would be beneficial to fix before this appears on the main page and I could not fix myself.

The lead says The All India Azad Muslim Conference (Urdu: آل انڈیا آزاد مسلم کانفرنس ‎), commonly called the Azad Muslim Conference, was a large gathering of nationalist Indian Muslims in April 1940, but the article body states that there were multiple meetings ("Meetings of the All India Azad Muslim Conference were frequent in the 1940s") and that the conference was established in 1929. Therefore, it was more than just a large gathering in April 1940. Another thing I noticed is that the next-to-last paragraph of the history section is unsourced and imo, unclear. It says Another Conference known as the All India Azad Muslim Conference, but the article itself is the "All India Azad Muslim Conference". I can't figure out what this means; was there another group that had a conference and you accidentally put this instead? Did the article's subject have another conference? Clarification would be appreciated.

Thank you very much for your work on the article so far, Anupam, it's a very interesting read!--SkyGazer 512 ^{My talk page} 03:25, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

I appreciate your hard work User:SkyGazer 512! When I initially started doing research on the topic I intended to write about the single session that was held in Delhi but then expanded the article to include other sessions of the organisation. I have thus rewritten the first sentence to reflect the entirety of the article. Additionally, the unsourced sentence was in my personal notes--that's why there was no reference there. I did not mean to publish it and have thus removed it. I hope this helps and trust that the process can now move forward! With regards, Anupam^Talk 06:54, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Anupam, that looks much better. Pinging Narutolovehinata5 to see if this can be approved now! Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 ^{My talk page} 13:07, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

This is almost, almost ready. My last remaining concern is that there's no information listed as to why the organization disbanded, or what its ultimate legacy was. Once this is addressed I will gladly give this the tick. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:30, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

While I wasn't able to find any information on a formal dissolution of the organisation, I did find information about its legacy—that is—why it was sidelined and failed to influence the Indian politics. I added that information to the article so it should be good to go now User:Narutolovehinata5. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam^Talk 16:19, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, I think this is ready to go now. Accepting in good faith the quote given as a source. The article now meets DYK requirements, as such I'm now approving this.

Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:50, 3 April 2019 (UTC)