Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehrdad

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 delete. If this guy is the Persian version (oo, rhymes) of P-diddy, the article can be recreated when it can be verified. Re:Mubed, that wouldn't be a move, that would be a different article. I encourage you to create it. Mangojuice^talk 16:38, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Mehrdad

Biography of a non-notable person. Not enough personal information to be considered as a biography. Commercial form of representing the person (unencyclopedic). Insufficient evidence like links to the works, make this person notable, or sources mentioning this person. Repeted removal of {{subst:prod}}. Mubed 06:49, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Neutral I think more research will need to go into this. There is a claim for notability and for all we know this guy could be the Persian version of P-diddy. Currently it's unreferenced and far from a perfect state but if notability can be established then it's worth keeping. 205.157.110.11 07:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Good point. If "9 successful albums" is anywhere close to true, he's easily notable. I would be slow on the trigger with this one, especially as the original author seems to be familiar with contemporary Persian musicians but very unfamiliar with English wikipedia :-\ My Alt Account 07:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I googled him a bit. Anything written about his biogrphay is taken from his official site and so you can't know if it's realy true or not, well that's the story he has told! I didn't find 9 albums but 6. There was no information about how successful they were, but none of them was listed in any top 10 or something like that. It lookes like, he was not a very successfull singer in the past, but he got famous after singing together with Googoosh (the most popular female singer of Iran). I found also something about his family: "Mehrdad AsemAni left his 1 year old daughter (Maahak) to be with his gf (GooGoosh). Mehrdad's wife (daughter of a rich iranian merchant) took her daughter and left him to Iran." [1]

• Move Another point is, that "Mehrdad" is a popular persian name, with relativly old history. There were some important kings in persian history who were called Mehrdad (M. I, M. II, ...), so the first content which is associated with this name is some historical persons like Cyrus and Darius. Dariush is one of the most popular iranian singers, but you won't get any information about him on Darius. The same is with "Amadeus". No-one has written an article about Mozart and called it "Amadeus", although he may be the most famous "Amadeus", so an article about Mr. Mehrdad Asemani, who is not even the most popular and well-known "Mehrdad" shouldn't also be called Mehrdad, but "Mehrdad_Asemani". See also de: Mehrdad. Mubed 07:45, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete no verifiable evidence of notability provided.-Peta 04:47, 19 September 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.