Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abdelghani Mustafa Abdelghani

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:58, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Abdelghani Mustafa Abdelghani[edit]

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Delete as unverifiable. The article is almost entirely unreadable; many parts are little more than "word soup", although this alone is not reason for deletion. However, the only reference contained in this article is to a book that has no apparent relationship to the subject of the article. Another editor questioned this article on its talk page a year and a half ago, but there has been no improvement since then. I have attempted unsuccessfully to find other references that might verify this person's existence or notability. Admittedly, others who are fluent in Arabic might have access to potential sources that I don't, but so far it appears that the article flunks the most basic test of verifiability. R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:39, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete - I certainly do not speak Arabic but it looks like someone has tried to translate something via Google Translate and just copy-pasted the results. Would like to think this is a matter of WP:FIXTHEPROBLEM but I'm not sure where anyone would start. A search brings up plenty of "hits" but none of them seem to be "coverage" of the subject and some seem to suffer (bizarrely) from the same issues as this article. Would be good to get some editors with a better understanding of the subject 's context to determine if the article can be salvaged. Failing that, I don't think we have any choice but to delete this one. Stalwart111 (talk) 00:57, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:38, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:38, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:38, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 14:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KTC (talk) 00:18, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, but without prejudice to re-creation. This is a judgment as to the quality of the article, not as to the notability of the subject. He may well be notable, and if someone can establish that he is notable, they can re-write the article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:51, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The article would need a significant rewrite to read like an appropriate article. Unfortunately, considering that he is Egyptian, users familiar with the subject are either incompetent with English or are not aware of the Internet. Google Books provided one result here but a preview isn't provided so I wouldn't know how much information the book contains. The better option would be to add the article to Arabic Wikipedia and have users fluent with English translate it. There may be potential with this article but it is not comprehensible at this time. SwisterTwister talk 19:55, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per suggestion of SwisterTwister (add to Arabic Wikipedia first), unless someone knowledgeable with access to sources can rewrite it. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 03:05, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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