Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amir Hassanpour

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 Keep. Author ascerts self as notable scholar. Patstuart^{(talk)(contribs)} 08:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Amir Hassanpour

Amir Hassanpour (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

No indication that he is notable, no 3rd-party or secondary sources. Khorshid 18:09, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Do we have to go through this every single time? Please see systemic bias. Baristarim 01:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per baristarim and Khorshid seriously stop this - it's unfair. Ozgur Gerilla 01:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment to admins: the above two users are guilty of votestacking and wikistalking of me. Please investigate and relist this AfD. Khorshid 02:24, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, He is mentioned as a leading Kurdish scholar[1] or communication scholar[2], or Kurdish scholar[3], and he gets over 700 google hits, here I enlist some of the impotant ones (in addition to University of Toronto links and his numerous publications):

Canada-Israel Committee, Women's Rights, Swans' Commentary, Middle East Review of International Affairs, CTV (Canada), A Century of Revolution, Washington Post, Human Rights Watch, Petition of International Scholars, Canadain Peace Alliance, Bibliographia Iranica (MIT). Personalities, in Kurdish Academy, Abstracta Iranica, Encyclopaedia Iranica, International Journal of Kurdish Studies, Kurdish Literature and Authors, University of Virginia.Heja Helweda 01:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I call this nomination 'blind systematic bias'. The irony is that the user who nominatated this informative article for deletion, has a link to one of articles by this very famous Kurdish scholar, Amir Hasanpour, on his/her user page. :) http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/KURDICA/1999/APR/Iran-policy.html Awat 02:02, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • See WP:NPA. Attack me again and I guarantee you will be blocked. Khorshid 02:27, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Also FYI I also have a link to "Misconceptions about Iran" but you dont see making an article about it. In fact it used to be an article but was deleted so I put it on my userpage. Maybe you should put this article on your userpage. Khorshid 02:34, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Because this is a person of uncertain notability, there should be a presumption in favor of privacy. However, the fact that his employer (?) has posted a webpage about him may weaken that presumption. At this time I would vote for a weak keep if there is evidence that he has no objection to inclusion in wikipedia. 69.140.173.15 19:48, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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.