Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hadhrami League

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The result was Withdrawn. Sandstein 20:27, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Doesn't seem to exist. I have done a lot of research and I couldn't find reliable independent sources mentioning this. I found some unrelated results like a league called The Hadrami League and it's not about this topic but it's a league for a Hadrami community in East Africa and has nothing to do with this. Also Hadramout was part of Yemen since ancient times including Dhufar (Salalah, Omani part of Mahra) etc see Yemen for more about this. I want also to note that weird unknown fake nationalistic organisations similar to this have been created before by another user see for example [1] SharabSalam (talk) 13:41, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. SharabSalam (talk) 13:41, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. SharabSalam (talk) 13:41, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Yemen-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 13:53, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The League was covered by Al Jazeera in 2012, Akhbar al Youm in 2014 in addition to dozens of other Arabic news sources over the past decade whose independence and reliability I can’t all be sure of. Mccapra (talk) 09:13, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Spelling more sources come up when you drop the "h", however, some of the sources that do come up are to an older usage of the phrase. books: [2]. Here's the BBC's pick-up of a local source: (Group in Yemen's Hadramawt demands governorate's right to "independence" BBC Monitoring Middle East; London [London]16 Apr 2013. Text of report in English by privately-owned Yemeni newspaper Yemen Observer website on 15 April) .E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:06, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

E.M.Gregory both spellings are true. The problem is the letter Ḍad which is pronounced differently based on the accent. It sounds like "ð" or "D" with a dot below ("Ḍ"). As a Yemeni I would pronounce it like Hadhramout not Hadramout. In non-Arabs places they would pronounce it "D" because they aren't used to pronounce "Ḍ". I would prefer it to be "D" in English Wikipedia but Hadhramout might be the most commonly used name I can't confirm that.--SharabSalam (talk) 17:15, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

•  I withdraw my nomination After doing some research: There is no independent Hadhramout. The group or the league was a not a real thing it was a made up thing like Ahrar al-Najran. Ali Abdullah Salah the former president of Yemen did this to make South Yemen fear from getting an independence because Hadhramout which is the largest governorate in South Yemen would want an independence too. South Yemen would have nothing except some ports and deserts if they got saperated. The differences between South Yemen and north Yemen goes back to ancient times when Saba' was in the North and Himyar was in the South. Ali Salah was reportedly able to dance on the snakes heads. Currently all of what I know about the Hadhramout League is from some Facebook groups and pages.--SharabSalam (talk) 16:22, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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