Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue/February 2009

Project #17 - February 2009

Category:Unreferenced BLPs from February 2009 (Category does not exist or has been deleted due to completion of task.)
Started at March 31, 2011 with 202 articles. 0 left.

202 / 202 (100%)

See also

The list of articles, updated daily at about 05:30 UTC
List of articles proposed to be deleted from this month's UBLP list, using the WP:CATSCAN tool.
The starting list of 202 articles, useful for tracking progress using the related changes function.
- Random page from this month's effort
- Or choose from the lists of politicians, musicians, actors, writers, sportspeople or academics.

Progress by letter

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

202 - Lets get going on Project #17! The-Pope (talk) 12:19, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
178 - and the initial surge is on - 10% done in 4 hours... can we finish it in 2 days? A look at the list shows plenty of Iranians... anyone speak Farsi?The-Pope (talk) 16:44, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
168 - encountered a group of hard-to-source Saudi princes, so slow going for me tonight.--CharlieDelta (talk) 20:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
157 - And updating the letter board, lots of letters down already! --joe decker ^{talk to me} 01:48, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
150 - Y --joe decker ^{talk to me} 16:55, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
122 - struggled through a group of Iranian footballers, politicians and academics.--CharlieDelta (talk) 22:12, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
110 - working on S--CharlieDelta (talk) 09:01, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
93 - S done apart from one PROD, one copyvio and one Saudi Prince, Sultan bin Saud for whom I cannot find any sources. You'd have thought there would be something, but this needs another pair of eyes. If anyone does manage to source it, perhaps you could sort out the other royal Saudi football fans at the same time.--CharlieDelta (talk) 20:21, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Crikey, that looks tough, but I'll take a shot at it. I was all convinced I could find him through his dad, before realizing that his dad had over 100 children.... --joe decker ^{talk to me} 20:28, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I have something. [1] this looks like the same person in Arabic, which I tracked down through the enormous list of King Saud's sons in the Arabic wikipedia. The Royal Guard claim in that article ties into claims in this book [2] of a Sultan bin Saud who had a similar position. Awfully sketchy. I've added the relevant links to the WP page, but feedback appreciated. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 20:53, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Good enough, I think. He clearly exists and that's a reputable publisher. Thanks.--CharlieDelta (talk) 21:05, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
85 - J --joe decker ^{talk to me} 23:53, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
68 - Cleared out F as best I could. Yikes. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 17:04, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
49 - Looks like folks cleared out K and L, we're more than 3/4s done! --joe decker ^{talk to me} 23:48, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
36 - Cleared out M and N --joe decker ^{talk to me} 14:55, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: With 22 at deletion, there are really only 14 left to go! --joe decker ^{talk to me} 15:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, can anyone make sense of whether Omprakash Singh and Om Prakash Singh are the same person? The career spans don't overlap well, etc., but ... I'm honestly just not sure. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 16:21, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Joe, I wonder whether User:Shyamsunder who created the Om Prakash Singh article and who appears still to be active might be able to help?--CharlieDelta (talk) 20:08, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think they are different people. Looks like opposing political parties (Samajwadi Party vs Bharatiya Janata Party), to start with. There's also a gangster with the same name popping up in the GNews hits. Haven't found any RS for Omprakash Singh yet and the article's a mess.--CharlieDelta (talk) 20:29, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah. The article is in fact a mess. I did find a ref, with a quote that I had to pull out of the Google books search results since it wasn't visible in the text, but it does confirm "MLA of party X", which is something. --joe decker ^{talk to me} 20:56, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
20, all at deletion, and we're done. Onward! --joe decker ^{talk to me} 20:58, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]