Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cyrus Alvand

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. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:34, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cyrus Alvand[edit]

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No references. Beeshoney (talk) 09:39, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Then find some. Keep. --John (talk) 13:25, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's slightly difficult to find references when there aren't any, John. Surprise me by finding some yourself. This article is 4 years old and there is still not one reference! Beeshoney (talk) 13:39, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just to show how scarce references are: There are less than 2000 English results for this person on Google - as you can see here. My own user name gets nearly 3 times more results (shown here). Even TFOWR (just shown as an example because you might think that "beeshoney" is common) gets over twice the results, as shown here. Beeshoney (talk) 13:46, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - very difficult to source (tried, failed, best I can do is a filmography), probably also fails WP:ENT. --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk) 13:58, 19 August 2010 (UTC)Weak Keep - the new source is less than brilliant (doesn't show much notability) but it's better than nothing while the article is a stub --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk) 08:56, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - the person's name is سیروس الوند, as noted in the article, and searching for this name shows a great wealth of potential sources. Thparkth (talk) 14:03, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per THparkth; difficulty in locating English-language sources is not itself valid deletion rationale for non-Western cultural figure. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:37, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:01, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:01, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as he's a notable filmmaker, I added a source which is a famous Iranian news paper. Spada II ♪♫ (talk) 05:38, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep Notable in Iran is notable enough for en.Wikipedia. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 08:53, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep He won a Crystal Simorgh which is enough to establish his notability.Farhikht (talk) 14:29, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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