Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farid Pardashunas

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The result was delete. Missvain (talk) 01:23, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Farid Pardashunas

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A BLP on an entrepreneur that does not pass WP:BASIC or WP:ANYBIO. The 8 references provided in the article are all passing mentions, in fact, some of them don't mention Pardashunas at all. He gets barely hits on Google News or here. There is this source which looks like it might help with establishing notability but I have no idea whether it is a reliable source or not and I could find little else. Spiderone 21:22, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Qaynarinfo.az is quite a reliable source, yes I agree he's not mentioned much in google news, however he's a well-known tech journalist in Azerbaijan, and it would be better to keep this page active so that international tech companies and other entrepreneurs could search for their peers in Azerbaijan. Also, the community of Azerbaijani wikipedia deleted his page using their power of abuse. The user below claims about strong delete is one of them. I would suggest to protect this page until this conflict between admins and the person has been solved.

--1elvinn (talk) 21:39, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 21:24, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 21:24, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 21:24, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Azerbaijan-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 21:24, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete: The article obviously doesn't meet simple notability criterias. A renown journalist should at least have a couple reliable links/references to cite. The links provided in the article don't thoroughly cover information about the person, just mention their name. About Qaynarinfo.az, it's obvious the website cannot be a primary reference (full of ads, lack of neutrality), as there're articles about literally thousands of people there.
On a side note, i think, we also have to take into consideration the fact that the article has been repeatedly deleted from Azerbaijani Wikipedia after a simple nomination for deletion, and the article namespace is currently protected. It may be off-topic, but it caused a drama on social media, when the person in the article started to insult Azerbaijani Wikipedia and its community, which ultimately led to the creation of this article on English Wikipedia just to prove that the person a notable journalist. Cheers, Toghrul Rahimli (talk) 08:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a non-notable journalist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:46, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. --► Sincerely: Sola Virum 01:18, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep known journalist, I met him at Cannes lions. he's a tech journalist, not some movie star or political figure. Why do you expect him to be mentioned a lot in google news? I know he has a small youtube ch, tech news website. Lindavf (talk) 09:43, 19 December 2020 (UTC)— Lindavf (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
Delete The issue being discussed is not whether he exists (of which I have no doubt), but whether he meets the WP:GNG requirements of significant, independent, reliable coverage. He does not. Jmertel23 (talk) 15:41, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, Fails WP:GNG. Alex-h (talk) 14:02, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete this vanity page. No hits in Google news, no WP:RS that I can find. Many of the citations beefing up the article are off-topic. As to 1elvinn's keep !vote, Wikipedia is not LinkedIn, and the source mentioned is dependent because it's an interview with him. FalconK (talk) 23:11, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.31.124.65 (talk) 10:01, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.