Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Sakhavarz

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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 08:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alan Sakhavarz[edit]

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I find four newspaper articles in the Toronto Star, two mentioning a competition where he was one of the judges and two for cartoon exhibitions where he was on the list. There appear to be no other matches in the GNews archives. I find few mentions in books (GBooks). None of these would appear to unambiguously be a source that demonstrates notability sufficient against the specific criteria of WP:ARTIST such as permanent exhibition or notable awards. The article has been flagged as an unsourced BLP for a year and a half and rather than adding these weak sources I am raising the article for wider discussion as I believe this marginal case falls short of encyclopaedic notability. Fæ (talk) 23:57, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - He has verifiably had his work included in the 1990 "Birds in Art" exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum as shown by this show guide. And there is google news results mentioned by the nominator. However, these are insufficient to meet the general notability guidelines or the one specific to artists. -- Whpq (talk) 13:59, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:12, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The article content suggests a possibly notable career in Iran, so it would help us to find sources if someone could tell us how his name is written in Persian. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:47, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete: Persian آلن سخاورز , Low G hit Persian search result, unsourced BLP. Spada II ♪♫ (talk) 07:28, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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