Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pedram Khosronejad

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The result was no consensus. Spartaz ^Humbug! 16:47, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pedram Khosronejad[edit]

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Apparent autobiography. WP:BLPPROD removed without explanation. Fails WP:GNG. Richard Yin (talk) 17:48, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: In the time it took me to nominate this article someone else put it up for speedy deletion. This AfD may be redundant. --Richard Yin (talk) 17:59, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I declined the speedy--it is not overly promotional, and it indicates notability as the author of multiple books. DGG ( talk ) 18:57, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

While I wouldn't have had a problem with DGG speedy deleting this article (promotion comes in many forms, and I think this article is), I guess this fellow gets his day in the sun before this article is deleted for easily failing WP:GNG. LHM^{ask me a question} 22:43, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment He now holds a position at St. Andrews College in the UK that is an endowed chair "The Goli Rais Larizadeh Fellow of the Iran Heritage Foundation for Anthropology of Iran" [1]. He is listed as a "Research Fellow", [2] but I have no idea what that means in the UK academic world. All this to say that judged as an academic he is interesting, and, IMO, en route to notability. I will add the St. Andrews info to the article. LaMona (talk) 16:28, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not a chair and he's not a professor. He's not even a lecturer. A research fellow is a professional academic researcher paid to do research only. He doesn't have a teaching position, although he may do some teaching on the side. That doesn't mean he's not notable (although I suspect he isn't), but don't equate it to a chair. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:47, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I found an organization that he is chair of, and added his position and chairmanship. As WP:PROF he is getting much closer. I am leaning toward weak keep because I do not know the status of these positions. LaMona (talk) 16:40, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:39, 25 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Clearly notable as an authority in his specialized subject. His most widely held book, he art and material culture of Iranian Shi'ism is in 700 libraries, according to worldcat--a very high number for such a topic. DGG ( talk ) 05:39, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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