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Shafik Quoraishee

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There's no significant independent coverage or profiles in reliable media to satisfy WP:GNG. Shafik Quoraishee is mentioned in primary or self-published sources (personal website, LinkedIn, Medium) and event listings. Icem4k (talk) 20:44, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Icem4k (talk) 20:44, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Here is also his work at Nieman lab: https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/01/how-the-new-york-times-is-building-experimental-handwriting-recognition-for-its-crosswords-app/, which is a significant and notable publication. And also at the Brave Technologist where he was interviewed: https://brave.com/podcast/e71/.

The NYT Open Platform is maintained by the New York Times, where his work is mentioned. https://open.nytimes.com/developing-an-internal-tool-for-our-puzzle-editor-d5dc7a9a6464

He's also mentioned on The New York Times Games wikipedia. The New York Times Games Meester king (talk) 20:50, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I vote to Keep, based on the above additional sources and notes. Meester king (talk) 21:00, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Games, Engineering, Computing, Internet, and New York. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:15, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There don't seem to be enough independent sources that cover his person for us to have an article. Notability according to WP:NPROF doesn't seem to apply either; I can find a Shafik Quoraishee who has published a few papers, but nothing nearly prominent enough to meet those criteria. -- Maddy from Celeste (WAVEDASH) 10:54, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete but willing to change my mind: I don't see multiple secondary, independent, reliable sources with in-depth coverage of the subject in the current references. If someone who was involved in the article wants to take a look, I recommend providing WP:Three sources as a starting point and we can go from there. Caleb Stanford (talk) 20:55, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I understand your concern, and I appreciate your willingness to reconsider. To help clarify why Shafik Quoraishee meets Wikipedia’s notability guidelines for biographies (WP:BIO), here are three independent, reliable, and secondary sources that offer significant coverage of his work—not passing mentions or trivial inclusions:

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1. Nieman Journalism Lab (Harvard), Jan 17, 2024

Title: How The New York Times is building experimental handwriting recognition for its Crosswords app

Link: https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/01/how-the-new-york-times-is-building-experimental-handwriting-recognition-for-its-crosswords-app/

This article profiles an engineering effort led by Quoraishee to build an ML handwriting system for NYT’s Crossword app.

It covers technical architecture (CNNs, on-device inference), product decisions, and his role in implementation.

Nieman Lab is editorially independent of the NYT and widely regarded as a reliable source on media and tech.

✅ Independent ✅ Secondary ✅ Reliable ✅ Substantial focus on subject

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2. Droidcon NYC – Official Speaker Listing (2025)

Link: https://nyc.droidcon.com/speakers/shafik-quoraishee

Shafik is listed as a speaker at this major developer conference, where he presented on ML-based handwriting input for NYT Crossword using TensorFlow Lite.

The profile includes professional background (11+ years Android dev, prior roles at NBA/Business Insider) and links to related publications.

✅ Independent ✅ Secondary ✅ Reliable ✅ Professional recognition

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3. AI Engineer World’s Fair – Session Abstract (June 5, 2025)

Title: AI and Game Theory: A Case Study on NYT’s Connections

Link: https://www.ai.engineer/schedule (navigate to June 5, Design Engineering track)

Quoraishee gave a scheduled 20-minute talk on using semantic clustering, puzzle-solving models, and graph theory to analyze NYT’s “Connections” game.

The abstract includes conceptual depth, showing this is not just a résumé filler but substantive technical work discussed at scale.

✅ Independent ✅ Secondary ✅ Reliable ✅ Focused on subject’s original contribution

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Summary

These sources:

Are not self-authored or promotional

Provide significant, sustained attention to Quoraishee’s work

Appear across multiple venues with clear editorial oversight

They satisfy the core of WP:BIO and WP:N—particularly the standard that “significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources” is the bar.

If you need more links, screenshots, or context to verify these directly, I’m happy to provide that. 209.87.169.34 (talk) 03:00, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Reference 1 is primary and written by the subject. It is likely that the rest of the post has similar basic errors, and may have been regurgitated by a large language model output, so I will not read it in detail. Caleb Stanford (talk) 03:37, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Armies of Death

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Could not find any sigcov. Redirect to Fighting Fantasy (the series it is in)? PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:53, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature and Games. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:53, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I am neither for nor against deletion because I know nothing about this subject, but I would not suggest a redirect to Fighting Fantasy because this subject is not mentioned in that article at all. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 02:25, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it should be. So add mention and then redirect. Very odd there is not a list of the books in that article. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:26, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You can actually do that yourself. If that was your only issue, there was no need to bring the article to AfD. Erpert ^{blah, blah, blah...} 02:43, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Whether the link is in that article or not, there is still obviously a need to bring it to AfD because the book is not notable.

I'll do it sometime later if someone doesn't. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:45, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, the books are on the list article, List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, which is stuck in the see also for some reason. So redirect there. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:53, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as it now meets the requirements following the reviews added by User:Guinness323. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:31, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
None of those reviews are reliable. The RSN discussion on Fantasy Book Review came to the conclusion it was unusuable for notability, the other is a blog and the other is one sentence of coverage in a listicle. PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:42, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 11:47, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~. As far as I can see, all the FF series have articles. It would make no sense for this to be the sole one that didn't. This needs wider discussion than just a single book. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:49, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Necrothesp For the record, less than half do... so no. List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks PARAKANYAA (talk) 12:19, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. I was looking at the wrong list. I'm neutral then. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:20, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:58, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. None of the newly added sources are reliable, and my search of ProQuest/EBSCOhost/archive.org/Gbooks does not turn up anything providing significant coverage. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 02:19, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to List of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks - The added sources are either not from reliable sources or are a trivial mention in a listicle. I have also not found any reviews or coverage in reliable sources in my own searches, which makes this a failure of the WP:GNG and WP:NBOOK. Redirect to the main list of Fighting Fantasy titles, where is is already listed, is the only real WP:ATD here. Rorshacma (talk) 00:50, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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