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Akhtar Hameed Khan

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Notified: Islescape, WP Pakistan, WP Bangladesh, WP Biography, WP India, WP International development, WP Muslim scholars, WP Economics, 2018-03-02 and 2021-09-18

Review section

I am nominating this featured article for review because a) it was the oldest listed at WP:FARGIVEN, and b) the talk page notices given indicate that the article is largely sourced to a self-published biography by a non-notable academic and a close relative of Khan. DrKay also mentioned prose and structure issues. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:42, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Look at the first line, & one of the links! Eeek! Johnbod (talk) 02:10, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Oh, my :) And it was that way when promoted … in early 2008 … when yours truly was a new FAC delegate. And that ran on the mainpage and no one noticed it! (How did you see that?) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:34, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Me and my little cursor... You couldn't do that then. I was curious to see where development practitioner led, having a family member who would be one if such beasts existed - it's a nice idea though - would one lie on a couch?Johnbod (talk) 02:38, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Maybe we did such things back then. Or maybe not :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:41, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

• Up to its last sentence, the paragraph about Lodhran is supported by Hasan (2002) p. 209. But I can't relate "The municipal partnership was itself a new initiative that ensured wider civic co-operation" to the source. The first part of the paragraph already states that the organization which partnered with the municipal committee was purpose formed in 1999, so it seems redundant to say the partnership was a new initiative. The rest of the sentence is vague enough that I'm not sure to what it is referring. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:52, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

• The premise of the FAR notifications on article talk were that “the article is largely sourced to a self-published book by a relative”. Glancing at the first parts of the article, the kind of text that is sourced to the relative is precisely the kind of information we would expect from a relative. Things like where he was born, who his parents were, and the like. I also do not find that the article is largely sourced to Yousaf; perhaps there were improvements made after the notice was left ??
  I think we need to take a closer look at each individual statement sourced to Yousaf; if something inappropriate is found, it can be removed or resourced, but at this point, I am not yet convinced that the problems here are insurmountable. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:47, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

  @DrKay and Bumbubookworm:, I have trimmed some text cited only to his relative. Most of what is cited to Yousaf is personal biographical info that seem appropriate to be sourced to a relative. Yours were the talk page notifications that led to this FAR; could you please have a look and indicate what issues remain? Thanks, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:59, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

This article is very short. Google, google scholar, google books and google news all turn up usable (not written by Yousaf) sources, including scholarly, that could be used. It appears to me that the main problem here is not an overreliance on Yousaf, rather a failure to update the article to a comprehensive survey of the literature that would better cover Khan’s legacy. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:19, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021886313518965
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325381411_Akhtar_Hameed_Khan_1914-1999
• David Simon’s 2019 book Key Thinkers on Development has a chapter by David Lewis, (which might be this PDF
• http://www.opp.org.pk/about-dr-akhtar-hameed-khan/
• https://tribune.com.pk/article/88649/the-man-who-understood-poverty-akhtar-hameed-khan
• https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/how-co-operative-society-cumilla-helps-two-villages-prosper-327109
• https://tribune.com.pk/story/781557/centennial-birthday-celebrations-akhtar-hameed-khan-remembered

Move to FARC, the article uses exclusively sources from 2006 and earlier, and there is much more that can be used. The article has not been updated to incorporate newer sources, and is not comprehensive. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:22, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

• Move to FARC per Sandy. Hog Farm _Talk 14:58, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

FARC section

Issues raised in the review section include sourcing and comprehensiveness. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:40, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

• Delist per sourcing problems unaddressed. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 12:05, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
• Delist. On prose, in the lead "Doctorate of law" should be "doctorate of law" and "he started a bottom-up community development initiative of Orangi Pilot Project" doesn't read right to me. Surely it should be "he started a bottom-up community development initiative called the Orangi Pilot Project" or "he started Orangi Pilot Project, a bottom-up community development initiative"? On sourcing, I don't think an article extensively sourced from an Xlibris book can be a featured article. DrKay (talk) 11:32, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
• Delist - not comprehensively sourced. Hog Farm _Talk 15:06, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
• Closing note: This removal candidate has been delisted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please leave the {{featured article review}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:29, 4 December 2021 (UTC)