Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nezameddin Faghih

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The result was Delete. Rjd0060 (talk) 18:22, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nezameddin Faghih[edit]

Autobiography. Macrakis (talk) 23:45, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per WP:AUTOBIO Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 00:01, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete. I would not say that the fact that this is, apparently, an autobiography is sufficient grounds for deletion but it is certainly a reason to look at the article very carefully. In this case, upon closer inspection, many things do not check out. First, a GoogleScholar search for this academic returns almost nothing[1] and there is nothing at all in GoogleBooks[2]. That appears to indicate that the work of this scholar is basically complely unknown outside of Iran. I tried to verify some info listed in the article, with no success. For example, he is said to have the rank of "distinguished professor" at Shiraz University. After a bit of searching, I did find a webpage there listing him:[3], with no special ranks attached. Also, he is listed there in the Department of management and accounting in the Faculty of Social Sciences. The article, on the other hand, makes it sound like he is an engineer/applied mathematician. The article says that he is the director of "Center for Development of Professional ethics in Science and Technology" at Shiraz University. A search of the website of the university does not show any such center:[4]. He is listed in the article as the Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research" (supposedly an academic journal in English). A plain GoogleSearch does not return any hits for this journal[5]. Similarly, zero Ghits for the "Journal of Contemporary Farsology"[6] where he is supposed to be the Editor-in-Chief as well. The article lists him as the winner of "Academic Man of the Year Gold Medal Award" (1998, USA). Again a google search for "Academic Man of the Year Gold Medal Award" returns zero hits.[7] And so on. With so many things in the article failing WP:V, this does not pass either WP:V or WP:PROF and, especially in view of WP:AUTOBIO, should be deleted. Nsk92 (talk) 13:23, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I found another webpage for him at Shiraz university which has more info:[8]. In particular, it contains an item "Academic Man of The Year, by ABI, USA, 1998". So it seems that it was an award by the American Biographical Institute, a vanity press outlet which sells honors and awards for a fee. Nsk92 (talk) 19:33, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete After that careful analysis by Nsk92, what more to say? --Crusio (talk) 15:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Ditto.John Z (talk) 22:31, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete To provide a cross-check on cultural bias, I examined Scopus, which is more complete than Web of science for the less developed countries, especially in the social sciences. He has only one paper listed there, "Sustainable rangeland management using a multi-fuzzy model: How to deal with heterogeneous experts' knowledge" by Azadi, H. , Shahvali, M. , van den Berg, J. , Faghih, N., in Journal of Environmental Management Volume 83, Issue 2, April 2007, Pages 236-249 It gives his address as "Economic Department, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran." It has never been cited. Since it was only published in 07, it may hyet be, but the absence of other papers shows a lack of impact upon the subject. Of the other authors, van den Berg is the only one at all well known, having 19 papers there, and must therefore be regarded as the principal author. Neither of the others have any other publications listed. DGG (talk) 03:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per all of the extensive research above. There is no doubt in my mind that this individual is not notable enough to merit a Wikipedia biography of his own. Also fails WP:PROF. Khoi khoi 07:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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