Reclosing as Keep. While discussion has focused on the quality of sources, there are no actual delete votes other than the nominator. As this is not a vote: The strongest argument against notability is that the sources used to demonstrate notability suggest they are either passing mentions or unreliable, or as Sitush points out, his authorship of his most widely known work is in dispute. RE unreliable - our own article on The Milli Gazette has nothing to suggest it is unreliable, likewise the other print sources have nothing to suggest they would be unuseable even if they are not widely known. While 'passing mentions' may be correct for some of the sources, some of the passing mentions are for his work, which as Anupmehra references, is enough to satisfy WP:CREATIVE. While this by itself may not necessarily qualify as 'notable' - SNGs are by their nature somestimes less restrictive than WP:V and WP:GNG - taken with the other sources available this would appear to satisfy WP:GNG for the Keep editors. RE 'His authorship is in dispute' - this would be something that would need to be addressed in the article. As it is generally accepted they did author the work. Lastly, even had all the (as it appears from discussion) opposing editors formally opposed, this would be a 'no consensus to delete' given the strength of arguments on either side. -edit- to take into account edit conflict with Sitush's last comments: A redirect to the poem would be one option that could be discussed on the article talkpage, however it is clear there is no consensus for a redirect in the below discussion. ( non-admin closure) Only in death does duty end ( talk) 09:56, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Re-creation of a previously deleted article that hasn't addressed the previous issues. Fails Wikipedia:N, Wikipedia:V, and Wikipedia:RS. The article is sourced almost entirely from [1], which is not a reliable source; I followed up with the other sources and none of the google book links support what the contributor claims they support. The "Interview of Syed Masood Hasan, Grandson of Bismil Azimabad" source doesn't come up on google. The main contributor translated this article, provided all of the "sources", and then proceeded to "pass" it as reviewed on new pages patrol, using sources that don't support what they claim with the exception of the spiritual world source. Fraenir ( talk) 07:43, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Interview with the author on September 17, 1995. The poem was written by a poet in Bihar. He was Bismil Azimabadi.- even though it might verify that he did write the thing. (I say might because I seem to recall that this fact alone has been disputed and the source is far from being a mainstream one, while the Spiritual World thing that is cited is not reliable). While it is true that Ram Prasad Bismil used the poem in his freedom fighting, that does not make its author notable - see WP:NOTINHERITED. Finally, based on the current version, the fact that some minor educational insitution has named an award after the guy is utter trivia. At best, and at present, this should be a redirect to the article about the poem. But that depends a lot on getting proper verification that it is not just a load of mirrors and myth perpetuating a dubious claim to authorship. - Sitush ( talk) 08:26, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Though it remains separate from mainstream media and is considered an alternative media it gets quoted by mainstream often- Sitush ( talk) 09:30, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
..an article's subject can be notable if such sources exist, even if they have not been named yet.
Reclosing as Keep. While discussion has focused on the quality of sources, there are no actual delete votes other than the nominator. As this is not a vote: The strongest argument against notability is that the sources used to demonstrate notability suggest they are either passing mentions or unreliable, or as Sitush points out, his authorship of his most widely known work is in dispute. RE unreliable - our own article on The Milli Gazette has nothing to suggest it is unreliable, likewise the other print sources have nothing to suggest they would be unuseable even if they are not widely known. While 'passing mentions' may be correct for some of the sources, some of the passing mentions are for his work, which as Anupmehra references, is enough to satisfy WP:CREATIVE. While this by itself may not necessarily qualify as 'notable' - SNGs are by their nature somestimes less restrictive than WP:V and WP:GNG - taken with the other sources available this would appear to satisfy WP:GNG for the Keep editors. RE 'His authorship is in dispute' - this would be something that would need to be addressed in the article. As it is generally accepted they did author the work. Lastly, even had all the (as it appears from discussion) opposing editors formally opposed, this would be a 'no consensus to delete' given the strength of arguments on either side. -edit- to take into account edit conflict with Sitush's last comments: A redirect to the poem would be one option that could be discussed on the article talkpage, however it is clear there is no consensus for a redirect in the below discussion. ( non-admin closure) Only in death does duty end ( talk) 09:56, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Re-creation of a previously deleted article that hasn't addressed the previous issues. Fails Wikipedia:N, Wikipedia:V, and Wikipedia:RS. The article is sourced almost entirely from [1], which is not a reliable source; I followed up with the other sources and none of the google book links support what the contributor claims they support. The "Interview of Syed Masood Hasan, Grandson of Bismil Azimabad" source doesn't come up on google. The main contributor translated this article, provided all of the "sources", and then proceeded to "pass" it as reviewed on new pages patrol, using sources that don't support what they claim with the exception of the spiritual world source. Fraenir ( talk) 07:43, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Interview with the author on September 17, 1995. The poem was written by a poet in Bihar. He was Bismil Azimabadi.- even though it might verify that he did write the thing. (I say might because I seem to recall that this fact alone has been disputed and the source is far from being a mainstream one, while the Spiritual World thing that is cited is not reliable). While it is true that Ram Prasad Bismil used the poem in his freedom fighting, that does not make its author notable - see WP:NOTINHERITED. Finally, based on the current version, the fact that some minor educational insitution has named an award after the guy is utter trivia. At best, and at present, this should be a redirect to the article about the poem. But that depends a lot on getting proper verification that it is not just a load of mirrors and myth perpetuating a dubious claim to authorship. - Sitush ( talk) 08:26, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Though it remains separate from mainstream media and is considered an alternative media it gets quoted by mainstream often- Sitush ( talk) 09:30, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
..an article's subject can be notable if such sources exist, even if they have not been named yet.