Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yousef Alikhani

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The result was keep. ...But someone should incorporate those sources. Shimeru 00:30, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yousef Alikhani[edit]

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Non notable and unsourced. Page created by single page editor, possibly the subject himselfFarhikht (talk) 12:57, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment One can search his name in Persian "یوسف علیخانی" in google to find out his impact on third generation of Persian novelists. As I know Ghabil Literary Magazine,[1], was an influential online journal for many years in Iran; his publishing house "Alamoot" is one of the leading publishing houses in Iran for avant-gard novels.--Newpoesia (talk) 18:36, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There is one source for sure, not sure as to it's reliability. Gosox⁽⁵⁵⁾₍₅₅₎ 13:18, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean ghabil.com?Farhikht (talk) 13:21, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Might be popular in Iran, but even searching on his name plus "novelist" yields only some book-reading circle report in English, at the top of the results; there's an Iranian microbiologist of the same name who's probably more notable. I tried to find the book where he's interviewed, at least to have an ISBN, but Google Book search turns up no such title. Yakushima (talk) 14:31, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete Absolutely no third party references, should have been BLP PRODed instead. Forty two^{Thanks for all the fish!} 15:54, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 21:06, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 21:06, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the nominator, whose user page says he speaks Persian quite well, apparently cannot be bothered to follow WP:BEFORE, and is simply mass-denominating Iran-related art and literature articles for deletion with the same cut-and-paste rationale. A google search in Persian [2] shows numerous sources from Iranian newspapers and news agencies like Jaam-e Jam [3], Aftab [4], etc. cab (talk) 00:46, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to thank you for your comment, and your attention to the Iran-related articles. I have no problem reading again the policies, but honestly this manner of judging could just disappoint newcomers. I hate to talk about myself, but I'm not a newcomer, I'm an experienced editor here on Wikipedia with more than 20000 edits, I'm a writer with more than 5 books and many articles, I know Iranian culture, and be sure I don't want to create an article about myself!Farhikht (talk) 12:25, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak Delete~~ Weak Keep I agree the Google hits in farsi have good quality, so maybe its a good article for Farsi wikipedia but the subject is not inernationally notable. --Spada 2 ♪♫ (talk) 09:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- There's no such distinction as "good article for Farsi wikipedia but the subject is not inernationally notable". Non-English sources are perfectly acceptable as evidence of notability; attempts to change WP:N to state otherwise have repeatedly failed, most recently in October 2009. cab (talk) 04:31, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep While the current article reference is not in English, that's not a requirement, and the article appears (via automated translation) to cover the relevant information, appears to be reilable, secondary, independent, add the artab.ir link from CaliforniaAliBaba and the article passes GNG. Good enough. --j⚛e decker ^talk 20:53, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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